209 Quotes About Sage-sayings

Jesus died about two thousand years ago - Buddha died about five hundred years before that - and so will I. But our ideas of liberty, conscience and character will never perish from the face of this earth, so long as there is even one human being awake enough to see the society as their own family.

I may not live long, for each day my strength diminishes, but so long as there is even a trace of strength and life left in me, I will keep on giving.

Fortunate are those who get destroyed in the service of others.

Intelligence can get you from A to B, but curiosity will get you through infinity.

Better foster wisdom, before you destroy the world with your arrogance of intelligence.

Smartness without wisdom is stupidity.

There is a difference between growing up and growing old - most people grow old without ever growing up.

Real enlightenment is not at all free from all sorts of ignorance, but it is at all times aware of that ignorance as well as all the shortcomings of the self, whereas in the so-called enlightenment fueled by mysticism, the self gets consumed by the illusion of knowledge, which is worse than ignorance.

Darkness cannot be expelled with force, it can only be overwhelmed with light.