“. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.” PeopleWorldMindBelieveLooksLongLightFallBeliefUnderstandingLosesSpaceTeachingThis WorldColorFoolDon't BelieveInsanityFar AwayFalsehoodSagePreyIncense Author:Bodhidharma
“He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.” ThinkingBelieveAgeYoungBeliefNaturalWiseFoolDifficultyCaughtConvictionAlacrity Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believedthen he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchhausen.” PeopleIfsBelieveSaidBeliefOpinionImagineFoolAccountsHillsIndifferentPropose Author:Soren Kierkegaard