Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

An honest man is always a child.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.

The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.

The pure soul is a pure lie.

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God.

Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.

One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.

With trees and rocks and the sea and the stars and the clouds and the sun - you cannot be unreal, you cannot be phoney. You HAVE to be real because when you are encountering nature, nature creates something in you which is natural. Responding to nature continuously, you become natural.

For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!' I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered. I liked white better,' I said. White!' he sneered. 'It serves as a beginning. White cloth may be dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken.' In which case it is no longer white,' said I. 'And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.' - Gandalf

There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.

But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

Nearly everyone will lie to you, given the right circumstances.

You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals

I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.

Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.

Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.