wisdom Quotes

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.

The cautious seldom err.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.