“all that we are is a result of what we have thought”

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”

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

“The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.”

“The non-doing of any evil,the performance of what's skillful,the cleansing of one's own mind:this is the teaching of the Awakened. ”

“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”

“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.”