Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Books

• We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Writing, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.20, Courier Corporation

• I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teacher, Book, Pupils

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.150, Courier Corporation

• When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Book, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.228, Grove Press

• I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Brother, Book, Keys

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.117, GENERAL PRESS

• Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Gita, Sin

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

• My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Heart, Spinning

• If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Book, Gita

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

• Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Doe, Common

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.120, Orient Paperbacks

• The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Principles, Done

• Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Spirit, Notable

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

• To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Book, Historical

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works”

• Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Heart, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Summer, Spring, Book

• What better book can there be than the book of humanity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Humanity, Real Education

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.146, A&C Black

• As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Reading, School

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.22, Jaico Publishing House

• Let our lives be open books for all to study.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Study, Life Is

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.20, Courier Corporation

• The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Bible, Book, Gita

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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