Knows Quotes by Gautama Buddha

Know what you do not know.

— Gautama Buddha

To know and not to use is not yet to know!

— Gautama Buddha

I know what I gave them; I don't know what they received.

— Gautama Buddha

If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger.

— Gautama Buddha

Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are.

— Gautama Buddha

There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know.

— Gautama Buddha

When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

— Gautama Buddha

If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given...

— Gautama Buddha

No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.

— Gautama Buddha

A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower.

— Gautama Buddha

All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in…

— Gautama Buddha

If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.

— Gautama Buddha

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the…

— Gautama Buddha

With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows…

— Gautama Buddha

Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings…

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Gautama Buddha

The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate…

— Gautama Buddha

Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena

— Gautama Buddha

Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings,…

— Gautama Buddha

If you know something hurtful and not true, don't say it. If you know something hurtful and true, don't say it. If…

— Gautama Buddha

If beings knew, as I know, the results of sharing gifts, they would not enjoy their gifts without sharing them with others,…

— Gautama Buddha

How can a troubled mind Understand the way? If a man is disturbed He will never be filled with knowledge. An untroubled…

— Gautama Buddha

Freed by full realization and at peace, the mind of such a man is at peace, and his speech and action peaceful.…

— Gautama Buddha

All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon…

— Gautama Buddha

All of you knowing now, Tthat the Buddhas, the Teachers of the Ages, In accord with what is peculiarly appropriate, have recourse…

— Gautama Buddha

When you know for yourselves, 'These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these things are praised by the wise; these things,…

— Gautama Buddha

Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet…

— Gautama Buddha

Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that…

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Gautama Buddha

(The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled…

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Gautama Buddha

Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable.

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Gautama Buddha

How can one ever know anything if they are too busy thinking?

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Gautama Buddha

Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt

— Gautama Buddha

Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full…

— Gautama Buddha

Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would…

— Gautama Buddha

What I know is like the leaves on that tree; what I teach is only a small part. But I offer it…

— Gautama Buddha