Buddhism Quote by Eiji Yoshikawa

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

— Voltaire

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…

— Gautama Buddha

“Do not gossip about monks and speak ill of spiritual teachers”

— Shri Radhe Maa

I know people who are both extremely wealthy, people who are middle class and people with little material wealth. Whatever their circumstance may be,…

— Radhanath Swami

Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

On the whole, monks do not become famous - and that is a good thing - but monasteries do - and that is an…

— Basil Hume

“Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort…

— Ken Follett

People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.

— Dogen

A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their…

— Frederick Lenz

“Monasticism had transformed the humble work of discipleship into the meritorious activity of the saints, and the self-renunciation of discipleship into the flagrant spiritual…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable,…

— Jena Malone

There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life…

— Tenzin Palmo