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Thinking Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

49 Thinking quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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A fearful world can stop people from thinking about self‑rule and freedom. These sayings say that love and tolerance are needed before liberty, that belief shapes who we become, and that acting today matters more than dreaming tomorrow. They also remind us to think of the poorest person and let that guide our next useful act.

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The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.

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Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.

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Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.

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Think for tomorrow but act for today.

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I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.

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There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

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I think it would be a good idea.

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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.

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

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Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.

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Hide not your thoughts. If its shameful to reveal them, its more shameful to think of them.

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Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

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We believe as much in the purity of races as we think they (the Whites) do...by advocating the purity of all races.

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If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

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If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.

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You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

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You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to…

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I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the…

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Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help…

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I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or…

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It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in…

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Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion,…

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Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign…

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Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are:…

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You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it…

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At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous…

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Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by…

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Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my…

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I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to…

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Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush…

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It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for…

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I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of…

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I think it would be an excellent idea.

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So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

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High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

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A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of…

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Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.

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In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

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Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.

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Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with…

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to…

“Where there is life.”

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.