BUDDHA QUOTES

religious teacher (5th or 6th century BCE)

The darkest night is ignorance.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

The Gospel of Buddha


We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Dhammapada


He that hath sinned
In body, word, or thought,
Or in anything
That is called sinful,
Doing not that which is righteous,
But doing much that is unrighteous--
This fool after the dissolution of the body,
Shall go to perdition.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Iti-Vuttaka


To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Dhammapada


Nothing brings suffering as does
the untamed, uncontrolled unattended and unrestrained heart.
That heart brings suffering.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Anguttara Nikaya


Nothing brings joy as does a
tamed, controlled, attended and restrained heart.
This heart brings joy.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Anguttara Nikaya


The sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

The Gospel of Buddha


A life of chastity ... is the road that leadeth to Nirvana.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Iti-Vuttaka


The fiercest fire is hatred.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

The Gospel of Buddha


Look on Sin and loathe it;
With minds loathing it,
Then will ye make
An end of Misery.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Iti-Vuttaka


Through their proper knowledge
Creatures of Discernment forsake that Desire
Through which lustful creatures
Go to misfortune.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Iti-Vuttaka


An invulnerable armor is patience.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

The Gospel of Buddha


Whatsoever misfortunes there are
Here in this world or in the next,
They all have their root in Ignorance
And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Iti-Vuttaka


For he that is delighted by concord,
And who abideth in the Law,
Falleth not from Security.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Iti-Vuttaka


The most dangerous thief is unwholesome thought.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

The Gospel of Buddha


The most precious treasure is virtue.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

The Gospel of Buddha


By the destruction of his Cravings,
This monk hath extinguished Hunger, and hath attained Nirvana.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Iti-Vuttaka


The man that is dominated by Anger
Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law;
That man whom Hate doth accompany,
Becometh like unto murky darkness.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Iti-Vuttaka


Destroy the man of wicked thoughts,
Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Iti-Vuttaka


When the gods know that a god hath fallen,
With this kindly feeling
They do encourage him--
Be thou a god again and again.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Iti-Vuttaka