The Will To Truth Quotes

A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it.

If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.

The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.

Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.

The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.

We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.

Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.

God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory.

God alone knows absolute Truth.

I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.

My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

The truth is to be found nowhere else other than within ourselves.

They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.

Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.

The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction.

Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.

When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

God is not in strength but in truth.

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God.

I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

I worship the God that is Truth or Truth which is God through the service of these millions.

For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth and righteousness.

For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing.

Truth is the right designation of God.