Truth Quotes by Gautama Buddha

Conquer a liar with truth.

— Gautama Buddha

See the truth, and you will see me.

— Gautama Buddha

Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.

— Gautama Buddha

Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.

— Gautama Buddha

Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.

— Gautama Buddha

There are three things that cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.

— Gautama Buddha

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

— Gautama Buddha

Anyone who is not working toward the truth is missing the whole point of living.

— Gautama Buddha

The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein.

— Gautama Buddha

Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.

— Gautama Buddha

Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden…

— Gautama Buddha

Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as…

— Gautama Buddha

Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth…

— Gautama Buddha

Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will…

— Gautama Buddha

Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.

— Gautama Buddha

Perfect wisdom, Perfect tranquility,Perfect compassion,arise fromOur love,Our sincerity.Our understanding.

— Gautama Buddha

If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie…

— Gautama Buddha

It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is…

— Gautama Buddha

Beware of the anger of the body. Master the body. Let it serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master…

— 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

“If a person has faith, Bhāradvāja, he preserves truth when he says: 'My faith is thus'; but he does not yet come…

— Gautama Buddha

Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just…

— 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

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future,…

— Gautama Buddha

There is nothing like lust. Lust may be said to be the most powerful passion. Fortunately, we have but one thing which…

— Gautama Buddha

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.…

— Gautama Buddha

Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold…

— Gautama Buddha

But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ...…

— Gautama Buddha

I will teach you the Truth and the Path leading to the Truth.

— Gautama Buddha

Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp.

— Gautama Buddha

They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.

— Gautama Buddha

Be lamps unto yourselves; be your own confidence. Hold truth within yourselves.

— Gautama Buddha

Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth.

— Gautama Buddha

Follow the truth of the way. Reflect upon it. Make it your own. Live it. It will always sustain you.

— Gautama Buddha

In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.

— Gautama Buddha

Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.

— Gautama Buddha

Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Gautama Buddha

To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.

— Gautama Buddha

Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.

— Gautama Buddha