Reason Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Execution of the constructive programme in its entirety means more than Swaraj. It means Ram Raj, Khudai Sultanat or the Divine Kingdom.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.

— Mahatma Gandhi

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

— Mahatma Gandhi

There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as…

— Mahatma Gandhi

There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come…

— Mahatma Gandhi

India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture…

— Mahatma Gandhi