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Monks Quotes by Gautama Buddha
- Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or because you yourselves…
- One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was…
- Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he clings neither to…
- There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no…
- When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish…
- Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and…
- Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to…
More Monks Quotes
- I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in… — Sulak Sivaraksa
- My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the… — Ibn Arabi
- I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Students may feel the criticism is harsh, but I think it's possible they haven't had criticism before. It's my job to point… — Louise Wilson
- All is lost. Monks, monks, monks! — Henry VIII of England
- 'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out… — John Green
- Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to… — Olive Schreiner
- I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told. — Unknown Author
- I've always thought a good whodunnit needed vampires, monks, and gods. P.G. Holyfield has created an engaging world that both fantasy and… — Mur Lafferty
- Famous Playboy Hugh Hefner managed to successfully stop an order of monks from operating a business on his property. The police forced… — Colin Mochrie
- I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd… — Jared Harris