Buddha Quotes

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for anyone, actually.

The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

I observe myself and I come to know others.

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Know yourself to improve yourself.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Facts make you face stuff about yourself you'd rather not see.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

If you do not go within, you without

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.

Self knowledge is always bad news.