Top 1200 Wise Buddhist Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

Wise men and gods are on the strongest side.

The assembled souls of all that men held wise.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

The conscience is more wise than science.

When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.

Though old and wise, yet still advise.

A wise one determines his own fate.

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

Never met a wise man, if so its a woman.

The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise.

The wise with hope support the pains of life.

None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Full of wise saws and modern instances.

Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

My mom is an exceptionally wise and kind person.

The Buddhist mind is more complicated than the Christian mind. It comes up with endless heavens, endless hells, endless earths, and then we have something lower than hell. We have endless sub-realms that make hell look like Club Med and we have endless nirvana.

One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself, here it is in California, in Switzerland, in Japan. All over the world, Tibetan Buddhism is now part of the neighborhood. In 1968, there were two Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. By 2000, there were 40 in New York alone.

My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out of the practice of poetry, as does my Buddhist practice. Poetry is a very important element in the history of Buddhism in general and in Zen in particular. It was really Zen that motivated me to change the way I perceive the world.

If we are wise, we never leave school.

Everyday is a new life to a wise man.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

The wise man knows without traveling.

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

If you want to be a wise person, you need a Bible.

Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

None wise dares hopeless venture.

Enough experience will make you wise.

He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.

Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.

A wise man travels to discover himself.

The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.

Since to be loved endures, To love is wise.

There's a conspiracy / to protect the young, so they'll be fearless, / it's why you travel - it's a way of trying / to let go, of lying. You don't sit / in a stiff chair and worry, you keep moving. / Postcards from the Alamo, the Alhambra. / ... / You, fainting at the Buddhist caves. / Climbing with thousands on the Great Wall, / ... / Having the time of your life, blistered and smiling. / The acid of your fear could eat the world.

The idea of fixing of healing is an important part of any genuine spiritual approach. Kabbalah is very much about this idea of fixing of things that have been damaged. From a Buddhist point of view, things have been damaged because ignorance has intoxicated the mind.

Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we have a responsibility to pay attention to the design of the space where we assemble regularly. In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and Orthodox churches. Darkness communicates that something serious is happening.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

We are all wise for other people, none for himself.

Why are a 'wise man' and a 'wiseguy' opposites?

Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.

Nature is always wise in every part.

A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.

Fools are the gift of the God to glorify the wise!

Misfortunes make us wise.

The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.

How wise must one be to be always kind.

History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.