Top 1200 Wise Buddhist Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Putting our heads in the sand is not a wise strategy.

It is not wise for Chinese to do things to artificially disrupt relations with the U.S.

Those alone are wise who know how to love.

I didn't really chart things out, career-wise.

Wise men change, fools stay the same.

To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.

It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.

When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

A friend of mine told me a bunch of stuff on Buddhism and about Avicii being the lowest level of Buddhist hell, and it just sort of got stuck in my head. Later on when I went to setup a MySpace, I tried a bunch of names and they were all taken so I just kind of ended up with Avicii and then I got really attached to it.

It takes a very wise man to act the fool.

If there's one thing I've learned in the last 18+ years of interacting with over 60,000 people during my vegan lecture tour, it's that everyone is the same, whether they are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, atheist, Republican, Democrat, independent, socialist, fascist, black, white, Asian, Latino, Native, pro-life, pro-choice, pro-gun or anti-gun.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)- that is in the choices that shape these actions. Because the dispositions formed by previous choices can be modified in turn by present behaviour, this identity as choice-maker is fluid, its experience alterable. While it is affected by the past, it can also break free of the past.

To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.

Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.

Go to forest to meet the wise green friends!

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk.

The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.

Wise men still seek Him today.

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

I think that we'd be very wise not to predict anything with Donald Trump.

Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna. A globalization of evangelism 'in connection' with others, and a globally 'in-formed' gospel, is capable of talking across the fence with Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Muslim - people from other so called 'new' religious traditions ('new' only to us) - without assumption of superiority and power

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.

The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest lies in anticipating and profiting from market fluctuations. The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices. Market movements are important to him in a practical sense, because they alternately create low price levels at which he would be wise to buy and high price levels at which he certainly should refrain from buying and probably would be wise to sell.

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

I think people are wise to keep love and work separate.

Drinks-wise, I stick to water, sometimes a Diet Coke.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

Wise man also fears a weak enemy.

A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

Some of Buddhist texts say that, in the moment after you die, you think of New Jersey and you go to New Jersey or you think of 1820 and you go to 1820. Also, all your sort of inner-symbology gets writ large. So, if you're a Christian, you see Christian iconography.

What Nature bids is good, is wise, and faultless we obey.

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.

I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.