Four Noble Truths Quotes

#1. These Sutras are reminiscent of the Four Noble Truths of Lord Buddha: the misery of the world, the cause of misery, the removal of that misery, and the method used to remove it. Patanjali tells us that pain can be avoided. He further tells us that its cause is ignorance. (115)

Swami Satchidananda

#2. Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.

Gautama Buddha

#3. These four noble truths are the truth of suffering, the truth of its origin, the truth of cessation and the path leading to cessation.

Dalai Lama XIV

#4. At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four Noble Truths but that they hold certain moral positions on bedroom issues such as premarital sex, homosexuality, and abortion.

Stephen Prothero

#5. The four noble truths: that there is suffering, that it has an origin, that there is a cessation of suffering, and that there is a path to that cessation.

Sid Brown

#6. We believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths.

Dalai Lama

#7. I have often discussed the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path in talks I have given about meditation. But, since I also teach Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist mediation, I have a very eclectic approach to the subject.

Frederick Lenz

#8. I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.

Evangeline Lilly

#9. Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#10. It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us. - Tilopa

Lama Surya Das

#11. Compassion is a verb.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#12. All flesh is not venison.

George Herbert

#13. The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.

William James