Buddha
2 quotes by Buddha in QuoteDB, filed under Life, Wisdom. See all authors.
"Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought."
Dhammapada, verse 1 (Acharya Buddharakkhita translation).
Life"These three things shine for all to see, not hidden: the disk of the moon, the disk of the sun, and the Dhamma and Vinaya of a Tathagata."
Anguttara Nikaya 3.131 (Thanissaro Bhikkhu translation), the source of the paraphrase "three things cannot be long hidden".
Wisdom