Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
Buddha
Buddha Quotes on Knowledge
- Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through,lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.
- Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
- No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
- An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.
- There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
- Suppose an enemy has hurt you in his own domain, why should you annoy yourself and hurt your mind in your own domain?
- Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, no one can help you as much. Not even your father or your mother.
- Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
- To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.
- You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
- Do not dwell in the past, do not dwell in the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
- An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
- Do not believe in anything simply because you’ve 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. Donot believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
- 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.
- The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.
- Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
- To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
- All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
- One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond.
- Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
- If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
- The root of suffering is attachment.
- Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.
- What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.
- Ceasing to do evil, cultivating the good, purifying the heart: this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
- Attachment leads to suffering.
- Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
- Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
- As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.’ Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.
- The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero, than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.
The teacher of gods and men declared that being satisfied was the greatest of all riches. Remain Satisfied always. One knowing satisfaction is Truly wealth, even without material possessions.
Acharya Nagarjuna
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