Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Confession

• To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ignorance, Giving, Honest

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Errors, Stronger

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Errors, Confession, Made

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

• Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Uplifting, Guilt, Purity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “Collected Works”

• A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Promise, Religion, Sin

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.36, Courier Corporation

• Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Weakness, Confession

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.34, Courier Corporation

• A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Past, Simple, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India”

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