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Wisdom Quotes by Gautama Buddha

68 Wisdom quotes by Gautama Buddha

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The Buddha’s wisdom points out that knowing you’re a fool is smarter than pretending you’re wise. It says attachment causes suffering and that a short life lived with mindfulness beats a long life without it. The quotes also compare a wise mind to a craftsman shaping wood, showing that good deeds are hard but valuable.

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What you think you become.

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To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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The root of suffering is attachment

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Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.

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Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

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No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.

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Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.

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O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.

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If you find someone with wisdom, good judgment, and good actions; make him a companion.

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Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.

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As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.

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The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.

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If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the…

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The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you…

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Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through…

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Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the…

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There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he…

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Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he…

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“I shall live here in the rains, There in winter, Elsewhere in summer," muses the fool, Not aware of the nearness of…

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Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous…

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By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it,…

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Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness…

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If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And…

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Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of…

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There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension,…

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“Just as on a rubbish heap swept up on a main road a purely fragrant, delightful lotus might there spring up, Even…

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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be…

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Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling…

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Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said…

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“Here bhikkhus, some misguided men learn the Dhamma–discourses, stanzas, expositions, verses, exclamations, sayings, birth stories, marvels, and answers to questions–but having learned…

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The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, for one great cause alone appear in the world. The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, appear in the…

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“The Sage A person of wisdom should be truthful, without arrogance, without deceit, not slanderous and not hateful. The wise person should…

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The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

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A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.

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Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.

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Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.

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The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.

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The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

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Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.

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Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to…

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Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that…

If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.

Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.

One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.

He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.

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