Quote

The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.

Mahatma Gandhi

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mahatma Gandhi
Age: 78 †
Born: 1869
Born: October 2
Died: 1948
Died: January 30
Autobiographer
Barrister
Civil Rights Advocate
Civil Rights Leader
Essayist
Humanitarian
Journalist
Memoirist
Newspaper Editor
Peace Activist
Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
M. K. Gandhi
Mohandas K Gandhi
M K Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi
Bapu
Gandhi
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Gandhiji
Gandhji
Bapuji
Father of the Nation
Mahatma Gandhi
Needs
Communicate
Propelling
Rose
Radiates
Highest
Silently
Influence
Communicating
Nature
Fragrance
Truth
Intervention
Without
Medium
Self
Mediums

More quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Image
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
No agreement between the British and Muslims can affect me. An agreement between Hindus and Muslims alone will affect me.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?
Mahatma Gandhi