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Wise Quotes by Gautama Buddha

70 Wise quotes by Gautama Buddha

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Gautama Buddha points out that chasing sensory pleasures only brings more pain. He teaches that true wisdom begins with humility—knowing when we are foolish—and with letting go of strong attachments to things like wealth or relationships. He also says wise thoughts must be turned into actions, shaping the mind like a craftsman shapes wood.

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What you think you become.

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The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.

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

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

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To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.

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It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

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

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

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A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise -…

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He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with…

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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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Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is…

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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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Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who…

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Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind…

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Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.

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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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The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering…

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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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Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise…

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The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and…

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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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But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go…

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There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering."…

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To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which…

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So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,…

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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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With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

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Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views

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Know well what holds you back, and what moves you forward

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

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A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

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Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.

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

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One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised.

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There is no fire like passion No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger, And no joy like…

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If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to…

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The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

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

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