Ancient Quotes - Page 7

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.

The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.

The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met and, thus, steadily acquiring more and more control over the lives and assets of the poor.

Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out.

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

Leonardo da Vinci did not take received wisdom - whether from ancient classical thinkers or medieval scholars or from the Bible - without questioning it. And this was the beginning of the scientific method. This is another lesson for our time: that when we have evidence that contradicts a certain belief, we should be willing to change it. I think this made Leonardo, in some ways, a person who better understood the beauty of God's creation than a person who just takes all received wisdom from the Bible on faith.

Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

Those giants of old, the ancient Rishis, who never walked but strode, of whom if you were to think but for a moment you would shrivel up into a moth, they sir, had time-and you have no time!

The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no one, except maybe a Cambridge or Oxford don, can call you out and prove you wrong.

I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.

Karachi captures all of those rifts between ancient and modern, communal and individual. You see them playing out in people's lives.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

The rich are always enamored of the ancient.

Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.

To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison; but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.