wisdom Quotes

The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Disagreement is something normal.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.