"But I never again went through this..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
But I never again went through this street. There would be other men coming in this man's place and, ignorant of the incident, they would behave likewise. Why should I unnecessarily court another kick? I therefore selected a different walk.
More by Mahatma Gandhi
“It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.”
“If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.”
“Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.”
More on Learning
“Go pump some neurons. Expand your craniums”
“The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future.”
“I'll say - I have four kids! I married a woman when I was 24 years old. She was 13 years my senior. She had been married twice before. I adopted them. I was 24 and had a 17-year-old son instantly, an 11-year-old daughter, a 5-year-old, and a child on the way. So I had to learn how to become a parent very quickly.”
More on Experience
“Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.”
“The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.”
“An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true”