Sources of Sayings
- Funk, Robert, Hoover, Roy, and The Jesus Seminar. The Five Gospels - What Did Jesus Really Say? Polebridge Press, 1993.
The Five Gospels - What Did Jesus Really Say is a book that is based on research conducted by The Jesus Seminar -- a group of scholars founded to study the historical Jesus. In this book, they present the historicity of each saying of Jesus, which was decided by casting votes. Based on these votes, each saying is highlighted using one of four colors that symbolize its level of authenticity. - Hadith Collection, http://hadithcollection.com/ . Retrieved 25 May
2012.
Hadiths are acts or sayings that are attributed to Muhammad. HadithCollection.com is the principal source of sayings attributed to Muhammad for this website, and only hadiths from the Sahih Bukhari section have been used. - Internet Sacred Texts Archive, http://www.sacred-texts.com/ . Retrieved
15 July 2012.
The Sacred Texts Archive was used to obtain sayings for Buddha and Jesus. For Buddha, sayings contained in the Sutta Nipata were retrieved. The Sutta Nipata is a sutta (i.e., discourse) collection within the Pali Canon. For Jesus, sayings contained in the Gospel of Thomas were retrieved. The Gospel of Thomas is a Gnostic gospel that contains 114 sayings attributed to Jesus.
For Confucius, the Analects were retrieved. The Analects are what scholars agree to be the best historical representation of Confucius' teachings. - New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used
by permission. All rights reserved. http://www.biblegateway.com/ . Retrieved on
16 May 2012.
The New King James Version of the Bible is one of the most widespread translations. A Red Letter version of the NKJV was used to obtain sayings attributed to Jesus. Red Letter versions highlight the words of Jesus in red, which proved to be very useful for this website. Bible Gateway was also used to extract the teachings of King Solomon from Proverbs. - Project Gutenberg, 6 April 2012, http://www.gutenberg.org/ . Retrieved
on 7 June 2012.
Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize books and documents, most of which are public domain, in a free and easily accessible format. For this website, the Dhammapada was retrieved from Project Gutenberg. The Dhammapada is a collection of 423 short sayings attributed to the Buddha. The Tao Te Ching, which is the principal text of Taoism, was also retrieved from Project Gutenberg. - Tipitaka: The Pali Canon, edited by John T. Bullitt. Access to Insight,
23 April 2012, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/index.html . Retrieved on
23 June 2012.
Access to Insight contains a collection of canonical texts in Theravada Buddhism. For this website, sayings of the Buddha were retrieved from the Pali Canon. Most of these sayings come from the Sutta Pitaka division.