Top 100 Quotes About Siddhartha
#1. Zarathustra received his revelations from the archangels at age thirty, when he began his prophetic mission; Siddhartha's great renunciation of his princely life took place in his thirtieth year. Thoreau at age thirty finished his self-imposed isolation at Walden Pond.
Kevin Dann
#2. He whispered in the king's ear, "If you ask me, I think you should find a wife for Siddhartha. Once he has a family to occupy him, he will abandon this desire to become a monk." King Suddhodana nodded.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#3. Siddhartha's priority was to get down to the root of the problem. Buddhism is not culturally bound. Its benefits are not limited to any particular society and have no place in government and politics. Siddhartha
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
#4. Then Siddhartha began to understand that his son had not brought him happiness and peace, but suffering and worry. But he loved him, and he preferred the suffering and worries of love over happiness and joy without the boy.
Hermann Hesse
#5. Bodh Gaya is a land of enlightenment. Years ago, what Bodh Gaya got was Siddhartha but what Bodh Gaya gave to the world was Lord Buddha, the epitome of knowledge, peace and compassion.
Narendra Modi
#6. Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!
Hermann Hesse
#7. Siddhartha considered his circumstances. Thinking did not come easily to him. He didn't really feel like it, but he forced himself.
Hermann Hesse
#8. Every living thing is sacred to me. Compassion and love can heal this world, which is set on fire of violence and hatred. I will teach the world about compassion, and end the suffering by halting these floods of sorrow. Said Prince Siddhartha and began his journey of saving the man kind." ,
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#9. Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.
Roger Zelazny
#10. It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,-nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! (character of Siddhartha, speaking to the Buddha)
Hermann Hesse
#11. Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
Hermann Hesse
#12. You will become tired, Siddhartha." "I will become tired." "You will fall asleep, Siddhartha." "I will not fall asleep." "You will die, Siddhartha." "I will die.
Hermann Hesse
#13. I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha. He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.
Hermann Hesse
#14. Kamala did not try to find him. She was not surprised when she learned that Siddhartha had disappeared.
Hermann Hesse
#15. Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.
Hermann Hesse
#16. Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought-that was his goal.
Hermann Hesse
#17. Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow and worry. But he loved him and preferred the sorrow and worry of love to the happiness and peace he had known without the boy.
Hermann Hesse
#18. I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shramanas satisfy themselves with such skills.
Hermann Hesse
#19. Her smile was as fresh as a half-opened lotus. Siddhartha bowed and looked into her eyes, saying in a quiet voice, Thank you, princess.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#20. Siddhartha Gautama said that "life has dissatisfaction" (dukkha). He didn't say that "life is suffering and nothing but suffering" - only that we all suffer in larger or smaller ways.
Doug Kraft
#21. Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.
Hermann Hesse
#22. It was this very thing, it seemed to him now, which had been his sickness before: that he was not able to love anybody or anything. Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
#23. Out of this moment when the world melted away all around him, when he stood alone like a star in the sky, out of this moment of cold and despair, Siddhartha emerged, more himself than before, firmer in his resolve.
Hermann Hesse
#24. I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.
Hermann Hesse
#25. The father touched Siddhartha's shoulder. 'You will go into the forest,' he said, 'and become a Samana. If you find bliss in the forest, come back and teach it to me. If you find disillusionment, come back, and we shall again offer sacrifices to the gods together. Now go..
Hermann Hesse
#26. I will learn from myself, be my own pupil; I will learn from myself the secret of Siddhartha.
Hermann Hesse
#27. Kamaswami conducted his business with care and often with passion, but Siddhartha looked upon all of this as if it was a game, the rules of which he tried hard to learn precisely, but the contents of which did not touch his heart.
Hermann Hesse
#28. Gliomas appeared on the same side of the brain that the phone was predominantly held, further tightening the link. An avalanche of panic ensued in the media.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#29. If we, as a species, are the ultimate product of Darwinian selection, then so, too, is this incredible disease that lurks inside us.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#30. Second, proto-oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes typically lie at the hubs of cellular signaling pathways.
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#31. The approach required more persistence than imagination, but it produced remarkable results.
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#32. The dinosaurs who studied dinosaurs would soon become extinct in their own right. Watson
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#33. Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.
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#34. In 2004, a rash of early scientific reports suggested that cell phones, which produce radio frequency energy, might cause a fatal form of brain cancer called a glioma.
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#35. The gene that enables birds to learn songs can become cancer-causing. There is no normal physiological process that can't be bastardized by the disease.
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#36. Pierre and Marie (then Maria Sklodowska, a penniless Polish immigrant living in a garret in Paris) had met at the Sorbonne and been drawn to each other because of a common interest in magnetism.
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#37. It is one thing to try to understand how genes influence human identity or sexuality or temperament. It is quite another thing to imagine altering identity or sexuality or behavior by altering genes.
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#39. We may have to learn to live with cancer rather than die of it. It means a big change in our mindset and how we do research. We haven't quite reached there yet.
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#40. It was a Rube Goldberg disease. A change in the sequence of a gene caused the change in the sequence of a protein; that warped its shape; that shrank a cell; that clogged a vein; that jammed the flow; that racked the body (that genes built).
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#41. I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#42. Cancer is not a concentration camp, but it shares the quality of annihilation: it negates the possibility of life outside and beyond itself; it subsumes all living.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#43. What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.
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#44. For you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force. Vesadeva to Siddartha
Hermann Hesse
#45. An Irish surgeon, Denis Burkitt, discovered an aggressive form of lymphoma - now called Burkitt's lymphoma -
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#46. There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.
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#47. BRCA-1, a gene that strongly predisposes humans to breast and ovarian cancer.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#49. In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, the Red Queen tells Alice that the world keeps shifting so quickly under her feet that she has to keep running just to keep her position. This is our predicament with cancer: we are forced to keep running merely to keep still.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#50. When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.
Gautama Buddha
#52. It turns out that the very genes that turn on in cancer cells perform vital functions in normal cells. In other words, the very genes that allow our embryos to grow or our brains to grow, our bodies to grow, if you mutate them, if you distort them, then you unleash cancer.
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#53. Cancer changes your life," a patient wrote after her mastectomy. "It alters your habits. ... Everything becomes magnified.
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#54. Cancer, perhaps, is an ultimate perversion of genetics - a genome that becomes pathologically obsessed with replicating itself. The
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#55. Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace.
Hermann Hesse
#56. Leukemia is cancer of the white blood cells - cancer in one of its most explosive, violent incarnations. As one nurse on the wards often liked to remind her patients, with this disease even a paper cut is an emergency.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#57. In the late 1940s, Saunders had tended to a Jewish refugee from Warsaw dying of cancer in London. The man had left Saunders his life savings - £500 - with a desire to be "a window in [her] home."577
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#58. Our ability to read out this sequence of our own genome has the makings of a philosophical paradox. Can an intelligent being comprehend the instructions to make itself? - John Sulston Scholars
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#59. The search for a way to eradicate this scourge ... is left to incidental dabbling and uncoordinated research. - The Washington Post, 1946
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#60. Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Gautama Buddha
#61. Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#62. And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort - only light and peace.
Hermann Hesse
#63. Cancer is not just a dividing cell. It's a complex disease: It invades, it metastasizes, it evades the immune system.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#64. Bill by bill, and letter by letter, his scientific imagination was slowly choked by administrative work.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#65. Normal cells are identically normal; malignant cells become unhappily malignant in unique ways.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#66. It is not what you have," as a certain Brazilian samba instructor once told me, "it is what you do with it.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#67. It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#68. I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.
Hermann Hesse
#69. It is an old complaint about the practice of medicine that it inures you to the idea of death. But when medicine inures you to the idea of life, to survival, then it has failed utterly.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#70. The trick to my writing, it turned out, was doing so exclusively in bed. The minute I even dared to discipline myself and write at the desk, I produced mounds of nonsense. Yet, sitting in bed, I wrote easily, effortlessly, fluidly. I became the master of perfect indiscipline.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#72. Most of the selected essays share a common thread: They describe how science happens.
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#73. Being born a princess is all right, but behaving like one can be dangerous.
Siddhartha Choudhary
#74. Indeed, cancer's emergence in the world is the product of a double negative: it becomes common only when all other killers themselves have been killed.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#75. The chances in some cases are infinitesimal, but the potential is still there. This is about all that patients need to know and it is about all that patients want to know.
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#76. Each of us knows a few or several young people whose lives have been devastated by cancer. I don't mean to be nihilistic about it, but it is very much an active killer of people now.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#77. The discipline of medicine concerns the manipulation of knowledge under uncertainty.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#78. In China, lung cancer is already a leading cause of death attributable to smoking in men.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#79. One day, I had a patient who was going through chemotherapy who came to me and said, 'I'm going to go on with what I'm doing, but I need you to tell me what it is that I'm fighting.'
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#80. But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this!
Hermann Hesse
#81. We know cancer is caused ultimately via a link between the environment and genes. There are genes inside cells that tell cells to grow and the same genes tell cells to stop growing. When you deregulate these genes, you unleash cancer. Now, what disrupts these genes? Mutations.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#82. Low fiber, red meat rich diets increase the risks of colon cancer, and obesity is linked to breast cancer, but much more about these links remain unknown, especially in molecular terms.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#83. I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on - the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#84. Unlike other diseases, the vulnerability to cancer lies in ourselves. We always thought of disease as exogenous, but research into cancer has turned that idea on its head - as long as we live, grow, age, there will be cancer.
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#85. A Pap smear would give a woman a chance to receive preventive care [and] greatly decrease the likelihood of her ever developing cancer.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#86. This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.
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#87. Is there something I can do to kill the cancer germ? Can the rooms be fumigated ... ? Should I give up my lease and move out?
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#88. A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.
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#90. Every generation of cancer cells creates a small number of cells that is genetically different from its parents. When a chemotherapeutic drug or the immune system attacks cancer, mutant clones that can resist the attack grow out.
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#91. And this was to save rats, right? Or mice? You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors?
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#92. The very effect of X-rays killing rapidly dividing cells - DNA damage - also created cancer-causing mutations in genes.
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#93. Lung cancer incidence in men increased dramatically in the 1950s as a result of an increase in cigarette smoking during the early twentieth century. In women, a cohort that began to smoke in the 1950s, lung cancer incidence has yet to reach its peak.
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#94. A patient, long before he becomes the subject of medical scrutiny, is, at first, simply a storyteller, a narrator of suffering -
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#95. Some cancers are curable, while others are highly incurable. The spectrum is enormous. Metastatic pancreatic cancer is a highly incurable disease, whereas some leukemia forms are very curable. There is a big difference between one form and another.
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#97. Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene.
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#98. This book is the story of the birth, growth, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science:
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#99. The revolution in cancer research can be summed up in a single sentence: cancer is, in essence, a genetic disease. - Bert Vogelstein
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#100. It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle. - Sun Tzu
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