Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.

The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?

Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.

It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem like they've had it easier. But the thing we forget is that it is all relative, and each person's experience is uniquely their own, so that the worst thing they may be going through is truly the worst thing for them... it's just about having compassion.

I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

It takes a little blood to let the learning in.

Only the tortured can understand those who have been tortured.

People who have suffered know more about compassion.

People don't know what pain is until they suffer.

My heart goes out to anyone who suffers, and of course, to their families.