Top 1200 Wise Buddhist Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Income splitting is not a wise investment for Canadians.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

For the wise man, every day is a festival.

Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jesus represents a point of common ground an esteemed rabbi to the Jew, a god to the Hindu, an enlightened one to the Buddhist, a great prophet to the Muslim. Even to the New Age guru, Jesus is the pinnacle of God-consciousness. At the same time, Jesus is the divider. None but Christians see Him as a member of the Godhead on an exclusive mission to repair the broken world.

Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up.

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.

You look wise, pray correct that error.

He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed.

The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When there's less self and more life, we're very content, and when there's more self and less life we're quite unhappy.

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

Now you are on the Buddhist way. Keep up your meditation, as there is no instant illumination. The mind moves slowly into this. Do not become attached to your method. When, in the course of your meditation, your consciousness will have expanded and been transformed, you will then recognize that all the ways are valid ways.

The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

The wisest men are wise to the full in death.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

Wise man is the rooster of the universe: He awakens the unawake!

Wise investors won't try to outsmart the market.

Temperate anger well becomes the wise.

To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience.

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise

To have grown wise and kind is real success.

Basically, the Buddhist attitude is that you should not accept certain things through sheer faith. And for that you need a skeptical attitude. Buddha himself made this clear to his followers. He said you should not accept those things I taught out of respect for me, but rather through investigation by yourself.

After the event, even a fool is wise.

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

My favorite commentator, NBA-wise, is probably Doris Burke.

I don't think it's wise to shut down the government.

My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

For the newborn and wise, everything begins small.

Every civilization: Hindu, Buddhist, Confucianist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim, all of them understood that LEARNING was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING, LEARNING was NOT to MAKE MORE MONEY; It was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING.

Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a reception room large enough to accommodate the thousand Buddhist monks who once paid tribute to her father.

My mother was a very wise and strong person.

I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

What I said Wasn't wise It wasn't even true I apologise

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the universe are equally subject to change, equally subject to transitoriness or transmigration. A person cannot achieve emancipation from the cycle of birth and death until he or she can eliminate a more universal problem: the transience common to all things in the universe.