Mahatma Gandhi Errors Quotations

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.

It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him.

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

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

My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.

In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.