Noble Truth Quotes

The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last—that they don’t disintegrate, that they can be counted on to satisfy our hunger for security.

The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is … that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word... I ask whether it is not possible to see in the present social conflict of the world an analogous struggle between two, three, five equally serious verities and equally generous idealisms? I think it is possible, and that is the most dramatic element in modern civilization, that a human truth is opposed to another human truth no less human, ideal against ideal, positive worth against worth no less positive, instead of the struggle being as we are so often told, one between noble truth and vile selfish error.

The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.

A noble truth is a sacred creed.

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.