Unskillful Quotes
12 quotes by 11 authors
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For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality. As a result…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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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, by agreement through…
— Gautama Buddha
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In like manner, everyone who has received from God the power of distinguishing and yet follows an unskillful pastor and receives a false opinion for…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more: the real truth…
— Mother Teresa
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Using awareness, personal responsibility and inner work to review our unskillful or frightened reactions, we become more adept at turning habitual reactions to balanced responses.…
— John Earle
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Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.
— William Shakespeare
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So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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The teaching on karma starts with the principle that people experience happiness and sorrow based on a combination of their past and present intentions. If…
— Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
— Alexander Pope
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Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.
— Henry Watson Fowler
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Zen is a kind of unlearning. It teaches you how to drop that which you have learned, how to become unskillful again, how to become…
— Rajneesh
Who Wrote These Unskillful Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 12 Unskillful Quotes as follows: