Buddhist Wisdom Quotes

#1. If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true.

Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

#2. Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he may indeed be called "In his last body", "Great in wisdom" and a "Great man."

Gautama Buddha

#3. Like so many colours, like so many flavours, like so many fragrance, English grammar should be a personal choice.

Megha Khare

#4. Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.

Frederick Lenz

#5. When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain.

Gautama Buddha

#6. As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

Mark Epstein

#7. Our lives are the best school in the universe because we all have to face happiness and madness

Dalin Shu

#8. There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.

Gautama Buddha

#9. Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.

Gautama Buddha

#10. "All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

Gautama Buddha

#11. By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.

Huineng

#12. The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

Seth Godin

#13. True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#14. The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger, but in wisdom, understanding and love.

Jennifer Edwards

#15. Saying what the Father is saying releases the creative nature and Presence of God into a situation to bring His influence and change.

Bill Johnson

#16. There's just no doubt in my mind - under any set of rules - water boarding is torture.

Tom Ridge

#17. The fool who knows his folly
Becomes wise by that fact.
But the fool who thinks he's wise -
He's called 'a fool' indeed!

Anonymous

#18. A person of little knowledge
Grows old as a plough-ox grows old.
His fleshes increases;
His wisdom does not increase.

Anonymous

#19. One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.

Gautama Buddha

#20. It is bad to carry even a good thing too far. Even concerning things such as Buddhism, Buddhist sermons, and moral lessons, talking too much will bring harm.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#21. Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts.

Russell Brand

#22. Everything that I teach as an enlightened Buddhist teacher is towards directing an individual to happiness, a balanced wisdom and knowledge that is sometimes just bubbly and euphoric or just very still and profound.

Frederick Lenz

#23. I wanted to live inside it, not write in it.

Rachel Cohn

#24. One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

Sam Harris

#25. Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma. Now I, joyfully and fearlessly, In the midst of the bodhisattvas Frankly casting aside my expedient devices, Merely preach the Unexcelled Path.

Gautama Buddha