--- title: "8 World Thousand Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 8 World Thousand quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best World Thousand sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eae/arundhati-roy-346_afternoon_if-you-re-not-religious-then-look-at-it_1056083.png" --- > [If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/if-you-re-not-religious-then-look-at-it-this-way-this-world-of-ours/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eae/arundhati-roy-346_afternoon_if-you-re-not-religious-then-look-at-it_1056083.png) > [“Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/books-like-men-their-authors-have-no-more-than-one-way-of-coming-into/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/780/jonathan-swift-433_book_books-like-men-their-authors-have-no-mor_1540701.jpg) > [“Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/nature-s-silence-is-its-one-remark-and-every-flake-of-world-is-a-chip/) [Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea6/annie-dillard-509_life_nature-s-silence-is-its-one-remark-and-e_1706788.jpg) > [“You can give them the world a thousand times over, and they will throw it away a thousand and one times.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-c-estrada/you-can-give-them-the-world-a-thousand-times-over-and-they-will-throw/) [Alejandro C. Estrada](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alejandro-c-estrada/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e28/alejandro-c-estrada-23007_time_you-can-give-them-the-world-a-thousand-t_1868205.jpg) > [“and the number is six hundred and sixty-six,” that is, six times a hundred, six times ten, and six units. \[He gives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-church-fathers/and-the-number-is-six-hundred-and-sixty-six-that-is-six-times-a/) [The Church Fathers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-church-fathers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad1/the-church-fathers-1438_mathematics_and-the-number-is-six-hundred-and-sixty_1998936.jpg) > [The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I; Nor church of my own, though a million spires are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ella-wheeler-wilcox/the-world-has-a-thousand-creeds-and-never-a-one-have-i-nor-church-of/) [Ella Wheeler Wilcox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ella-wheeler-wilcox/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ce/ella-wheeler-wilcox-1442_bears_the-world-has-a-thousand-creeds-and-neve_2085239.jpg) > [... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yoshida-kenk/for-such-as-truly-love-the-world-a-thousand-years-would-fade-like-the/) [Yoshida Kenko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yoshida-kenk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d3/yoshida-kenk-15122_dream_for-such-as-truly-love-the-world-a-thous_2222055.jpg) > [A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/a-millennium-before-europeans-were-willing-to-divest-themselves-of/) [Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ced/carl-sagan-160_biblical_a-millennium-before-europeans-were-willi_2402485.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world-thousand/#itemlist", "name": "World Thousand Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you're not religious, then look at it this way. 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