Gautama Buddha Quotes About Wisdom
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The root of suffering is attachment
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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
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Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.
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A jug fills drop by drop.
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
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Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.
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Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
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A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
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Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
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To understand everything is to forgive everything.
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Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.
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Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of relatives, wealth and fame; The increase of wisdom is the highest gain. Therefore, you should train yourselves thus: "We will grow in the increase of wisdom" Thus you should train yourselves.
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Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
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Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
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The trouble is you think you have time.
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Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
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To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
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Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."
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The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.
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A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
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What you think you become.
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
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O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.
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Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
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Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
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