Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapuin India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth2 October 1869
CityPortbandar, India
CountryIndia
Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.
Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.
Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.
The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.
True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.
Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.
Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.
... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.
It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.
If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.
A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them.
Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.