Quotes About Wisdom

One of the oldest recitations of faith in Buddhism is taking refuge in what is called the Triple Gem: the Buddha himself, that person who awakened under the Bodhi Tree twenty-five hundred years ago; the Dharma, the truth, the law, and the body of teachings; and the Sangha, which means, in particular, the order of monks and nuns and, more generally, the community of wise beings. "I take refuge in the Buddha, I take refuge in the Dharma, I take refuge in the Sangha.

When we can settle back into the moment, realizing that past and future are simply thoughts in the present, then we free ourselves from the bondage of "time.

this quintessential Zen statement: "There is no right and no wrong, but right is right and wrong is wrong.

Better than one hundred years lived without seeing the arising and passing of things / Is one day lived seeing their arising and passing."2 What does this say about what we value and work for in our lives, and about the liberating effect of seeing directly, in the moment, the truth of change?

Buddhism is a clever way to enjoy life. Happiness is available. Please help yourselves to it.

Actions rooted in greed, hatred, or ignorance bring unpleasant results.

The Buddha's teaching is never about blind belief, but about the wisdom of our own inquiry.

The Pali word parami refers to ten wholesome qualities in our minds and the accumulated power they bring to us: generosity, morality, renunciation, wisdom, energy, patience, truthfulness, resolve, lovingkindness, and equanimity.

Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.

He was one of those people with lots of intelligence but no brains

It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum

There is wisdom in madness, and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everybody is capable of everything.

They think that they're smart and that the rest of us are dumb.

Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out

and the chaplain was ready now to capitulate to despair entirely but was restrained by the memory of his wife, whom he loved and missed so pathetically with such sensual and exalted ardor, and by the lifelong trust he had placed in the wisdom and justice of an immortal, omnipotent, omniscient, humane, universal, anthropomorphic, English-speaking, Anglo-Saxon, pro-American God, which had begun to waver.

I will give you intelligence, submitted the Creator, enough knowledge to destroy everything on earth, but you will have to use it. Done! said our ancestor and that was our Genesis.

Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise.

Moses has the Ten Commandments, it's true, but I've got much better lines - King David

How much older can you be at your age?

Lehet, hogy egy hosszú életet tényleg sok kellemetlen körülménnyel kell megtölteni, ha azt akarjuk, hogy hosszúnak látsszon. De ha így van, kinek kell? – Nekem – mondta neki Dunbar. – Miért? – kérdezte Clevinger. – Tudsz jobbat?

Nincs mód arra, hogy tényleg mindent tudjunk, ezt is tudta, sÅ't azt is, hogy még azt se tudhatjuk, valóban nincs-e mód arra, hogy tényleg mindent tudjunk.

he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to the riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall?

What can you tell your children today that will not leave them frightened and sad?

Everyone agreed that Clevinger was certain to go far in the academic world. In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.