Gautama Buddha Quotes

I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.

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• I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Reason
  • Goals
  • Achieving

• For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Nervous

• The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Reason
  • Need
  • Made

• So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Parents
  • Reason
  • Child

• Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Blind

• The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Book
  • Reason
  • Pictures

• The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Reason
  • Same
  • Often

• When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Reason
  • Author

• If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Reason
  • Tax

• Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Single
  • Reason
  • Note

• Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Way
  • Reason

• For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Incline

• Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowledge
  • Reason
  • Fact

• If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.

  

  Johann Most
  • Doubt
  • Enlightenment

• I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • People
  • Real
  • Help

• I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Reason

• I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

  

  John Travolta
  • Life
  • Real
  • Why

• The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Action
  • Reason
  • Film

• Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Reason
  • Skins

• Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Help

• I would not want you to suppose that my rejection of Allen Forte's theory of pitch-class sets implies a rejection of the notion that there can be such a thing as a pitch-class set. It is only when one defines everything in terms of pitch-class sets that the concept becomes meaningless.

  

  George Perle
  • Theory
  • Terms
  • Sets

• I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Family
  • Man

• I asked my grandmother how a Hungarian Jewish person can experience being Jewish. My grandmother answered was the only choice was to "keep quiet." I can understand her because she was a Holocaust survivor, and for her survival, she had to keep quiet. But I didn't obey my grandmother when I was a child, and in this case, I don't obey her either.

  

  Csanad Szegedi
  • Grandmother
  • Holocaust
  • Jewish

• I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Reason
  • Enlightenment
  • Gained