Gautama Buddha Quotes About Wisdom

• Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

  Gautama Buddha, “Joy”

• Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

• To understand everything is to forgive everything.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Positive, Forgiveness

• Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Wisdom, Spiritual

• The trouble is you think you have time.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Time

• What you think you become.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Wisdom, Eye

• Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Truth, Buddhism

• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Teacher, Religious

• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• 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."

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Men, Squares

• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Positive, Inspiring

• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

• To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Life Changing, Buddhism

• A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Wisdom, Buddhist

• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Loss

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

• As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Wisdom, Buddhist

• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Yoga, Ignorance

• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

• Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Wisdom, Shining

• The root of suffering is attachment

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Buddhism

• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Loss, Gains

• The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

• Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Teacher, Buddhist

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