Quotes by Gautama Buddha

About Gautama Buddha:

Gautama Buddha is believed to have lived and taught mostly in northeastern India sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE.
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A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

Gautama Buddha

The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next

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Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good man or any good woman awakens the thought of Enlightenment and takes even only four lines from this Discourse, reciting, using...

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If your compassion does not include yourself,it is incomplete.

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Suppose a man threw into the sea a yoke with one hole in it, and the east wind carried it to the west, and the west wind carried it to the east, and the north wind carried it to the south, and the south wind carried it to the north. Suppose there wer...

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Meditate, Ānanda, do not delay, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.

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Jīvaka, I say that there are three instances in which meat should not be eaten: when it is seen, heard, or suspected [that the living being has been slaughtered for oneself]. I say that meat should not be eaten in these three instances. I say that t...

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So too, friend, purification of virtue is for the sake of reaching purification of mind; purification of mind is for the sake of reaching purification of view; purification of view is for the sake of reaching purification by overcoming doubt; purific...

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Here bhikkhus, some misguided men learn the Dhamma–discourses, stanzas, expositions, verses, exclamations, sayings, birth stories, marvels, and answers to questions–but having learned the Dhamma, they do not examine the meaning of those teachings...

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How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.

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Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

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Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.

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May all that have life be delivered from suffering

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These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world: Long life is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world. Beauty is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world. Happiness ...

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Doubt everything. Find your own light.

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When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

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You only lose what you cling to.

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Now, Kalamas, don’t go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, ‘This contemplative is our teacher.’ When yo...

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It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people may bring along; and therewith they will cook food and dispel darkness, while the original torch itself remains burning ever the same. It is even so ...

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Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself. Better to conquer yourself than others. When you've trained yourself, living in constant self-control, neither a deva nor gandhabb...

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Author Bio

  • NameGautama Buddha
  • Descriptionspiritual teacher on whose teachings Buddhism was founded
  • AliasesSiddh?rtha Gautama; Shakyamuni
  • Born566 BCE
  • Died483 BCE
  • CountryKapilavastu
  • ProfessionBhikkhu; Philosopher