Monk Quotes · Page 2

At Length the Fox turnes Monk.

— George Herbert

I am a simple Buddhist monk.

— Dalai Lama

Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

The more you know the less you talk.

— A. R. Rahman

The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]

— Francois Rabelais

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

— Dalai Lama

“The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be.”

— C.S. Lewis

First inclination is to become a monk and leave the situation.

— Young MC

Thelonius Monk was not exactly 'the guy next door'.

— Dexter Gordon

The more you know, the less you carry

— Mors Kochanski

When I came out of the conservatory, the first thing I did was to go see Thelonious Monk.

— Cecil Taylor

The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

— Dalai Lama

When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: "on this Earth I attained Liberation".

— Frederick Franck

Monk's gone, and House is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off.

— Eric McCormack

“run, run, you can’t get away, the monk can run but the temple will never get away!”

— Mo Yan

Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I love Meredith Monk, and with Instagram, I get a chance to see if she has a cat, and what's she reading.

— Devendra Banhart

If you want to be great in what you're doing, you really need to limit yourself, so I consider my life as…

— Oleksandr Usyk

Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk…

— John Conyers

I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so…

— Jaime King

In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being…

— John Main

I intended to portray the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of our lives through four seasons and through the life of a…

— Kim Ki-duk

When a monk takes a vow of silence, is he still allowed to post messages on the Internet? Chances are God won't…

— Charlie Brooker

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks.…

— Chick Corea

If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both…

— Francois Rabelais

I never really got around to discussing that specific topic which I think it crucially important to understand. If you were a…

— Brad Warner

Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings,…

— Gautama Buddha

When a monk goes away from the world, he goes fighting with it. it is not a relaxed going. His whole being…

— Rajneesh

Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring.…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast…

— Gustave Le Bon

In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had…

— Pico Iyer

Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord…

— Swami Vivekananda

There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn... no escape would be discerned from what is…

— Gautama Buddha

Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.

— Kathleen Norris

Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

[The monks'] minds were inaccessible to reason or mercy . . .

— Edward Gibbon

I’m a basketball player, not a monk.

— Marvin Barnes

I should have been a Trappist monk.

— David Blunkett

“Buddhist Monk: "Keep your eye on what's for supper.”

— Tenzo