Wise Buddha Quotes

#1. Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.

Gautama Buddha

#2. Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the mark of the wise.

Gautama Buddha

#3. As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

Gautama Buddha

#4. He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.

Gautama Buddha

#5. People should learn to see and so avoid all danger. Just as a wise man keeps away from mad dogs, so one should not make friends with evil men." - Buddha

Gavin De Becker

#6. Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views

Gautama Buddha

#7. Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.

Gautama Buddha

#8. Hadn't another wise man, the Buddha himself, warned about the evils of attachment?

Manil Suri

#9. Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.

Gautama Buddha

#10. 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

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

Buddha

#12. A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.

Gautama Buddha

#13. There is no fire like passion
No crime like hatred,
No sorrow like separation,
No sickness like hunger,
And no joy like the joy of freedom.

Gautama Buddha

#14. But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.

Gautama Buddha

#15. Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else

Gautama Buddha

#16. If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

Gautama Buddha

#17. Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

Gautama Buddha

#18. When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.

Gautama Buddha

#19. If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings
this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.

Gautama Buddha

#20. Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

Gautama Buddha

#21. The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

Gautama Buddha

#22. Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little.

Gautama Buddha

#23. The Buddha's criteria for Wise Speech include - in addition to the obvious expectation that speech be truthful - that it be timely, gentle, motivated by kindness, and helpful.

Sylvia Boorstein

#24. The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

Gautama Buddha

#25. If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs,follow that wise man ; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him.

Gautama Buddha

#26. A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Gautama Buddha

#27. Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous people, the wise person associates with the best of people.

Gautama Buddha

#28. The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

Gautama Buddha

#29. As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.

Gautama Buddha

#30. The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Buddha

#31. Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.

Gautama Buddha

#32. One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised.

Gautama Buddha

#33. Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.

Gautama Buddha

#34. The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.

Gautama Buddha

#35. A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.

Gautama Buddha

#36. The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.

Gautama Buddha

#37. Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the way, Crosses over, beyond the reach of death. He leaves the dark way For the way of light.

Gautama Buddha

#38. If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.

Gautama Buddha

#39. Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.

Gautama Buddha

#40. 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

#41. Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is wise in reproof: it fares well and not ill with him who seeks such company.

Gautama Buddha

#42. Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness.

Gautama Buddha

#43. Know well what holds you back, and what moves you forward

Gautama Buddha

#44. To be a leader, take action and be an example. To be an adviser, be wise.

Debasish Mridha

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

Gautama Buddha

#46. As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.

Gautama Buddha

#47. Buddha advised: Bhikshus and wise ones, As gold is burnt, cut, and rubbed Take my advice by examining my speech well - Not [merely] for the sake of respect.

Yangsi

#48. Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.

Gautama Buddha

#49. As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.

Gautama Buddha

#50. Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Gautama Buddha

#51. Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

Gautama Buddha

#52. Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.

Gautama Buddha

#53. By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it, he tries to correct it. And when another acknowledges a shortcoming, the wise one forgives it as he should.

Gautama Buddha

#54. It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

Gautama Buddha

#55. Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

Gautama Buddha

#56. The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.

Gautama Buddha

#57. To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Buddha

#58. The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and arguments. As the lotus rises on its stalk unsoiled by the mud and the water, so the wise one speaks of peace and is unstained by the opinions of the world.

Gautama Buddha

#59. When you know for yourselves, 'These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these things are praised by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to welfare and happiness,' then you should engage in them.

Gautama Buddha

#60. A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.

Gautama Buddha

#61. Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.

Gautama Buddha

#62. Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless stage experienced by the wise

Gautama Buddha

#63. Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

Gautama Buddha

#64. The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

Gautama Buddha

#65. Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.

Gautama Buddha

#66. The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

Noah Levine

#67. Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha.

Joan Halifax

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. Though all one's life a fool associates with a wise person,one no more comprehends the Truth than a spoon tastes the flavor of the soup.

Gautama Buddha

#71. I call wise man who, while he is innocent , endures insults and blows with a patience equal to its strength.

Gautama Buddha

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

Gautama Buddha