Teacher Quotes by Gautama Buddha

Your worst enemy is your best teacher.

— Gautama Buddha

Your enemy can be your greatest teacher.

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Gautama Buddha

One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then…

— 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

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and…

— Gautama Buddha

Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the guide to your life…

— Gautama Buddha

Don't blindly believe what I say. Don't believe me because others convince you of my words. Don't believe anything you see, read,…

— 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

Do not accept anything simply because it has been said by your teacher, or because it has been written in your sacred…

— Gautama Buddha

Do not believe what you have heard Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations Do not believe…

— 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 Four Reliances. First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings,…

— Gautama Buddha

Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or…

— Gautama Buddha

Do not accept what you hear by report, do not accept tradition, do not accept a statement because it is found in…

— Gautama Buddha