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Sage | Source | Quote |
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Buddha | Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame. | |
Ursula Le Guin | Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool. | |
Dōgen Zenji | Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever. | |
Thaganapa | Even your belief in deception is a lie. | |
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | Every creature is only a tone, a modification in a mighty harmony. | |
Matsuo Bashō | Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. | |
Hóngzhì Zhēngjué | Every detail clearly appears before you. Sound and form, echo and shadow, happen instantly without leaving traces. | |
Balthasar Gracian | Every familiarity breeds contempt… the more a person shows, the less he has… Reticence is the seal of capacity… you must pay ransom to each you tell. | |
Balthasar Gracian | Every fool is fully convinced, and everyone fully convinced is a fool; the more erroneous his judgment, the more firmly he hold it. | |
Will (and Ariel) Durant | Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. | |
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | Every second is of infinite value. | |
Huangbo Xiyun | Every single sight and sound is but the Buddha’s Eye of Wisdom. | |
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity. | |
Aung San Suu Kyi | Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. | |
Arthur Schopenhauer | Every true thinker for himself is so far like a monarch… He takes as little notice of authority as a monarch does of a command; nothing is valid unless he has himself authorized it. | |
Albert Einstein | Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. | |
Mark Twain | Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception. | |
Aldous Huxley | Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy. | |
Chuang Tzu | Everyone wants to be first, while I alone want to be last, which means to endure the world’s disgrace. | |
Wang Bi | Everything in the world comes from being, and being comes from nonbeing If you would reach perfect being, you have to go back to nonbeing. |