However many holy words you read, however many you speak, wh... - Gautama Buddha

"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."

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him."

"Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living."

"When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die."

"To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual."