Buddha Quotes on Truth

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light, but making the darkness conscious.

The truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your reason and your own common sense.

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Buddha Quotes on Truth part 2

With our thoughts, we make the world.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

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

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There’s only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.

It is better to travel alone than with a bad companion.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

The tongue, like a sharp knife, kills without drawing blood.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.

Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

You only lose what you cling to.

One who understands others has knowledge; one who understands himself has wisdom.

Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

A leader is not one who controls others, but one who empowers others.

True leadership is not about being in charge, it is about taking care of those in your charge.