Creative Quotations from Buddha (563BC-483BC)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Buddha
(563BC-483BC) born on Apr 08

Indian religious leader. He renounced the world to search for a solution to human suffering; founded Buddhism, c. 528 BC.

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Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth -- not going all the way, and not starting.

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	In "Five Thousand Quotations for all occasions," by Lewis C. Henry, 1945.
R:	In "Pearls of Wisdom," ed. J. Agel and W. Glanze, 1987.
A:	In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
N:	"Some Sayings of the Buddha," by F. L. Woodward.
K:	In "The Manager's Book of Quotations," by Lewis D. Eigen and Jonathan P. Siegel, 1989.