Buddha Quotes

The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

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.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.

The school house will rise to enlighten the darkened intellect of a race imbruted by long years of enforced ignorance.

There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.

Her light shall pierce through the darkness of ignorance and man’s oppression.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.

The ultimate freedom depends on knowing the ultimate Truth. Truth is not what people say it is, it is what it is. And Truth, quite remarkably, sets one free, just like philosophers have said down the ages.

Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und.

Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.

I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.

Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.