"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
About this quote
From Harijan, Gandhi's weekly journal, 17 February 1940 (not 1935 as sometimes cited in secondary sources; the correct date is confirmed by Wikiquote and Newsweek). Harijan — meaning "children of God," Gandhi's term for untouchables — was the journal he founded in 1932 after leaving Young India, and it served as his primary platform for social commentary in the 1930s and 40s. The remark reflects Gandhi's consistent self-critical stance: he regarded intellectual humility as a practical necessity for Satyagraha, since a practitioner too certain of their own judgment cannot remain genuinely open to truth.
Source
Harijan, 1935