Gautama Buddha Quotes

Don't believe a teaching just because you've heard it from a man who's supposed to be holy, or because it's contained in a book supposed to be holy, or because all your friends and neighbors believe it. But whatever you've observed and analyzed for yourself and found to be reasonable and good, then accept that and put it into practice.

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• If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Real
  • Book
  • U.S.

• Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Healthy

• The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • May
  • Desire
  • Eyes

• I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Book
  • Like
  • Princess

• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Great
  • Real
  • Character

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called 'Devlin,' which ran for seven years, and I was on lunch pails and coloring books and all of that. It's really interesting being a coloring book when you're young – most kids colored in coloring books, but I made money off coloring books.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • You

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Book
  • Universe
  • Language

• I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Book
  • Wine
  • Grapes

• Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Book
  • Want
  • Saying

• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Thing

• Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Book
  • Interesting
  • Creating

• Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that I watch and grab a few quotes and start writing on paper. From there, I record a really rough version and work on the song.

  

  Yuna
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Book

• Find out if your radio interviewer has read your book, or you are going to have to do that part of the job on air. It's okay if they haven't, but it's always better to be prepared for what's coming.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Job
  • Air

• Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Men
  • Women
  • Home

• Always treasure the opportunity. He's got another opportunity to play again when he's 28, 29. Enjoy it. Enjoy it while you can.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Opportunity
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• For St. Thomas Aquinas the problem was rather different. It was a question of how to integrate philosophy into sacred science, not only without allowing either the one or the other to suffer essentially thereby, but to the greater benefit of both. In order to achieve this result, he had to integrate a science of reason with a science of revelation without corrupting at the same time both the purity of reason and the purity of revelation.

  

  Etienne Gilson
  • Science
  • Problem
  • Philosophy

• I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Life
  • Girl

• To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Poet
  • Profession
  • Condition

• Don't believe a teaching just because you've heard it from a man who's supposed to be holy, or because it's contained in a book supposed to be holy, or because all your friends and neighbors believe it. But whatever you've observed and analyzed for yourself and found to be reasonable and good, then accept that and put it into practice.

  

  Gautama Buddha
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  • Teaching