“I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with Truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography.”
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Probable attribution
This saying is widely associated with Mahatma Gandhi, but the attribution is not supported by a reliable primary source.
Likely origin: From the Introduction to Gandhi's autobiography 'The Story of My Experiments with Truth'; exact primary line not fetched to confirm.
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Framing a life as a series of experiments reframes conviction as something you test rather than announce. Each belief gets tried in practice, kept if it holds, revised if it fails. It's an unusually humble way to carry strong principles, treating them as hypotheses you're still checking against how they actually work.
When to use it
- Curious whether rising at dawn helps, a woman tries it for a month and judges by results, not theory.
- A teacher treats each new method as a trial, keeping what raises understanding and dropping what doesn't.
- A couple tests a strict budget for one season and adjusts it honestly by what the numbers showed.