--- title: "4 Absolute truth Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi" description: "4 Absolute truth quotes by Mahatma Gandhi. Plus more from Mahatma Gandhi and more Absolute truth sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35e/mahatma-gandhi-23_absolute_nobody-in-this-world-possesses-absolute_108769.jpg" --- > [Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/nobody-in-this-world-possesses-absolute-truth/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35e/mahatma-gandhi-23_absolute_nobody-in-this-world-possesses-absolute_108769.jpg) > [God alone knows absolute Truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/god-alone-knows-absolute-truth/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62b/mahatma-gandhi-23_absolute-truth_god-alone-knows-absolute-truth-1451554_1451554.jpg) > [It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/it-is-not-given-to-man-to-know-the-whole-truth-his-duty-lies-in/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/104/mahatma-gandhi-23_absolute-truth_it-is-not-given-to-man-to-know-the-whole_2813997.jpg) > [Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/nobody-in-this-world-possesses-absolute-truth-this-is-god-s-attribute/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b1/mahatma-gandhi-23_absolute-truth_nobody-in-this-world-possesses-absolute_2942190.jpg) ## Other authors on Absolute truth - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sorin-cerin-86306.jpg) Sorin Cerin 25 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absolute-truth/sorin-cerin/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-mouloud-benzadi-2369.jpg) Mouloud Benzadi 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absolute-truth/mouloud-benzadi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-dalai-lama-26000.jpg) Dalai Lama 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absolute-truth/dalai-lama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-nirmala-srivastava-71652.jpg) Nirmala Srivastava 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absolute-truth/nirmala-srivastava/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absolute-truth/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-eric-hoffer-33497.jpg) Eric Hoffer 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absolute-truth/eric-hoffer/) ## More by Mahatma Gandhi > [I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-not-want-to-live-at-the-cost-of-the-life-even-of-a-snake-i/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/devotion-required-by-the-gita-is-no-soft-hearted-effusiveness/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/no-nation-being-under-another-nation-can-accept-gifts-and-kick-at-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/so-long-as-we-fear-the-outside-world-we-must-cease-to-think-of-swaraj/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-not-want-a-kingdom-or-heaven-what-i-want-is-to-remove-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/religions-are-not-for-separating-men-from-one-another-they-are-meant/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-hold-flesh-food-to-be-unsuited-to-our-species-we-err-in-copying-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/it-was-only-in-south-africa-that-i-got-over-this-shyness-though-i/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [“Where there is life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/where-there-is-life/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/if-it-was-wrong-to-seek-god-in-a-stone-how-was-it-right-to-seek-him/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-spirit-of-democracy-cannot-be-established-in-the-midst-of/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/champions-are-made-from-something-they-have-deep-inside-of-them-a/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/my-motto-is-unite-now-today-if-you-can-fight-if-you-must-but-in-every/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-have-no-disciples-being-myself-an-aspirant-after-discipleship-and/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/man-becomes-not-the-lord-and-master-of-all-creation-but-he-is-its/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absolute-truth/mahatma-gandhi/#itemlist", "name": "4 Absolute truth Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mahatma Gandhi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/nobody-in-this-world-possesses-absolute-truth/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35e/mahatma-gandhi-23_absolute_nobody-in-this-world-possesses-absolute_108769.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35e/mahatma-gandhi-23_absolute_nobody-in-this-world-possesses-absolute_108769.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35e/mahatma-gandhi-23_absolute_nobody-in-this-world-possesses-absolute_108769.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.” — Mahatma Gandhi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "God alone knows absolute Truth.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mahatma Gandhi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/god-alone-knows-absolute-truth/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62b/mahatma-gandhi-23_absolute-truth_god-alone-knows-absolute-truth-1451554_1451554.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62b/mahatma-gandhi-23_absolute-truth_god-alone-knows-absolute-truth-1451554_1451554.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62b/mahatma-gandhi-23_absolute-truth_god-alone-knows-absolute-truth-1451554_1451554.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“God alone knows absolute Truth.” — Mahatma Gandhi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. 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