Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Storr

Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.

John Hodgman

I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth.

Hans Kung

There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.

Marvin Harris

Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential for the nutritional well-being of their followers.

Will Smith

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

Salman Rushdie

Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.

Swami Vivekananda

To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the enjoyments of social life, there is all that wealth can buy or power can bring, there is all that the senses can enjoy; and among all these various occupations of life and all this searching after something which can give yet a little more whetting to the cloyed senses - among all these, there is perhaps a little bit of religion. But here, in India, religion is the one and the only occupation of life.

Thomas Keating

It is essential for world peace that the world religions make peace with each other. If they don't, we can hardly expect the nations of the world to lay down their arms.

Vladimir Putin

Any minority's right to be different must be respected, but the right of the majority must not be questioned. Without the values at the core of Christianity and other world religions, without moral norms that have been shaped over millennia, people will inevitably lose their human dignity.

Charles Spurgeon

Whenever there is a cross to be carried by any of Christ’s followers, He always bears the heavy end on His own shoulders.

Bob Dylan

You're gonna have to serve somebody.

Abdurrahman Wahid

I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

Sheriff Stankus

When the trial first began, there were women in their late 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s here. As the trial progressed, the followers are getting younger in their late teens.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.

Jon Ronson

Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him.

John McGraw

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other ninety-nine percent are followers of women.

Neil Craig

From a bigger-picture point of view, to generate a game at this stage of the year for the state and footy followers is just fantastic.

David Platt

It is impossible to be a follower of Christ while denying, disregarding, discrediting, and disbelieving the words of Christ.

Chet Atkins

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

David Horowitz

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

Derek Bailey

I don't research anything.

Edwin Land

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

Barbara Tuchman

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.

Brigham Young

I shall not cease learning while I live, nor when I arrive in the spirit-world… and when I again receive my body, I shall …still continue my researches