Famous quotes containing the words wisdom and/or buddhism:
“To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.”
—W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)