The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“The Sage A person of wisdom should be truthful, without arrogance, without deceit, not slanderous and not hateful. The wise person should… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
