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Gautama Buddha

"Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to and take as your guide."

-- Gautama Buddha

#Teacher Quotes #Believe Quotes #Doctrine Quotes

“So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.”
“The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important of all created things. Man surveys the starry heavens and hears with his ears of the plurality of worlds; yet his religion bids him believe that his alone out of these innumerable spheres is the object of his master's love and sacrifice.”

Source : Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”
“I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?”
“How you feel right now is about equally genetic and circumstantial, but how you will feel on average over the next ten years is fully 80 percent because of your genes.”
“Iâ€™ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while itâ€™s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.”
“A cat is better than you are, more honest, more graceful, smarter for her size, better coordinated, and infinitely more beautiful.”

Source : Leonore Fleischer (1982). “The Cat's Pajamas”, Harpercollins
“Replace what you don't know about the future with what you do know about God!”

Source : FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Dec 22, 2013
“Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda.”

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