Famous quotes containing the words wisdom and/or buddhism:
““And wisdom is a butterfly
And not a gloomy bird of prey....””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“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)