--- title: "8 Understood Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi" description: "8 Understood quotes by Mahatma Gandhi. Plus more from Mahatma Gandhi and more Understood sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f1/mahatma-gandhi-23_adversaries_three-quarters-of-the-miseries-and-misun_277749.jpg" --- > [Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/three-quarters-of-the-miseries-and-misunderstandings-in-the-world/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f1/mahatma-gandhi-23_adversaries_three-quarters-of-the-miseries-and-misun_277749.jpg) > [The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-law-of-love-could-be-best-understood-and-learned-through-little/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e1/mahatma-gandhi-23_children_the-law-of-love-could-be-best-understood_1434782.jpg) > [Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/prayer-is-not-an-old-woman-s-idle-amusement-properly-understood-and/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dea/mahatma-gandhi-23_action_prayer-is-not-an-old-woman-s-idle-amusem_1842408.jpg) > [Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/nonviolence-is-an-intensely-active-force-when-properly-understood-and/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec3/mahatma-gandhi-23_active_nonviolence-is-an-intensely-active-force_2127227.jpg) > [The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-lives-of-zoroaster-jesus-and-mohammed-as-i-have-understood-them/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db3/mahatma-gandhi-23_gita_the-lives-of-zoroaster-jesus-and-mohamme_2984552.jpg) > [I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-have-an-implicit-faith-that-mankind-can-only-be-saved-through-non/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/312/mahatma-gandhi-23_bible_i-have-an-implicit-faith-that-mankind-ca_2988653.jpg) > [I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-understood-that-those-who-desired-salvation-should-act-like-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5d/mahatma-gandhi-23_desire_i-understood-that-those-who-desired-salv_3108563.jpg) > [Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/prayer-is-not-an-old-woman-s-idle-amusement-properly-understood-and-2/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a76/mahatma-gandhi-23_action_prayer-is-not-an-old-woman-s-idle-amusem_3126993.jpg) ## Other authors on Understood ## 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/understood/mahatma-gandhi/#itemlist", "name": "8 Understood Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mahatma Gandhi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/three-quarters-of-the-miseries-and-misunderstandings-in-the-world/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f1/mahatma-gandhi-23_adversaries_three-quarters-of-the-miseries-and-misun_277749.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f1/mahatma-gandhi-23_adversaries_three-quarters-of-the-miseries-and-misun_277749.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f1/mahatma-gandhi-23_adversaries_three-quarters-of-the-miseries-and-misun_277749.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the…” — Mahatma Gandhi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mahatma Gandhi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-law-of-love-could-be-best-understood-and-learned-through-little/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e1/mahatma-gandhi-23_children_the-law-of-love-could-be-best-understood_1434782.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e1/mahatma-gandhi-23_children_the-law-of-love-could-be-best-understood_1434782.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e1/mahatma-gandhi-23_children_the-law-of-love-could-be-best-understood_1434782.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.” — Mahatma Gandhi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. 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