Even though a speech be a thousand (of words), but made up of senseless words, one word of sense is better, which if a man hears, he becomes quiet.
About this passage
- Attributed to
- Dhammapada, verse 100 – tr. F. Max Müller (1881)
- Source
- Dhammapada, verse 100 – tr. F. Max Müller (1881)
- Culture / tradition
- Buddhism
- Attribution status
- ✓ Verified source
Photo: Scotch Mist · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
What would change if you lived this for one week?
Write one sentence in your journal about what this means to you.
Join to journal, save & shareCreate a share imageWatch & listen
Bill Cosby on Success Part 1 of 2
Bill Cosby on Success Part 2 of 2
The power of believing that you can improve | Carol Dweck | TED
Related wisdom
The Master said, 'Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;-- this is knowledge.'
The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
