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Biography - Mahatma Gandhi:

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Indian lawyer and political ethicist.
Born: 1869 - Died: 1948
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: India
India

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Wut und Intoleranz sind die Feinde des richtigen Verständnisses.

French
Colère et intolérance sont les ennemis d'une bonne compréhension.




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I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.

Let the other side be heard as well.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.




Quotes for: to understand


Quotes

Quotes for: to understand


The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.





The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.





Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.





It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.





In youth we learn; in age we understand.











Quotes for: anger


Quotes

Quotes for: anger


When someone opposes me, he arouses my attention, not my anger. I go to greet a man who contradicts me, who instructs me.





With the good man anger is quick to die.





If I were not king, I should lose my temper.





Anger is a short madness.





So when any one makes you angry, know that it is your own thought that has angered you.





The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Seneca / 











Quotes

Mahatma Gandhi also said...


There is more to life than increasing its speed.





Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.





Where there is love there is life.





My life is my message.





The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and from different points of vision.





The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.












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