Greek Quotes - Page 8

The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions

The interesting thing is that the 82% of the Greeks do not want to abandon the Euro. They really believe that there might be some kind of magical way where we could stay in the Eurozone but do not do our homework. This is not possible. So what we are trying to do is explain, you know, we in Greece invented democracy but we also invented at the same time populism.

No word in our language - not even "Socialism" - has been employed more loosely than "Mysticism." The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut.

Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review.

One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.

I know one thing, that I know nothing.

If, therefore, the Greeks or others say that they are not committed to Peter and to his successors, they necessarily say that they are not of the sheep of Christ, since the Lord says that there is only one fold and one shepherd (Jn.10:16). Whoever, therefore, resists this authority, resists the command of God Himself.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks

The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you’re a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency.

Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.

To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.

I've always wanted to have a Greek sitcom called Olive Lucy.

Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.