Best 393 quotes in «ancient quotes» category

The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ancient order worshiping forgotten gods no one had ever heard of outside of the world of secret occult visions.

The wisdom of our ancestors is immortal.

The world exists because your mind exists. If your mind didn’t exist, there would be no world. As you look at these words, you see them in what appears to be a reality outside of you. What you are really seeing is the image that your mind is creating from the electrical signals being sent to your brain. While they may appear to be outside of you, this is an illusion, they exist within your own mind, and are being projected to appear as if they are outside of you. This apparent reality that is projected by our minds, is maya, and to believe that maya is the ultimate reality is a result of ignorance, or avidya in Sanskrit.

The written word is greatest sacred documentation.

The written word is the greatest sacred documentation.

Whoa, don't assume, dude," Marco said. "My mom always said, when you assume you make an ass of u and me--

We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.

What is this power of words? In our everyday routine, we use words to carry out all our transactions. If someone praises us then we get happy and if someone criticizes us then we get annoyed. If we take a closer look at this phenomenon then we will easily understand that when somebody is praising us or calling us names, that time no material comes and hits us. All that happens is, we just get to hear the sound of the words uttered by the other person. When that sound reaches our ears, our mind starts analyzing and interpreting that sound. If the interpretation given by the mind is positive then we get happy. If the interpretation given by the mind is negative then we get annoyed. It is true that the meaning of those words is already present in our mind. Words only invoke the meaning already present in our mind. This relationship between words and their meanings is known as ‘Shakti’ (power) in philosophy.

When energy turns in—what Buddha calls paravritti, the coming back of your energy to the source—suddenly clarity is attained. Then you can see clouds a thousand miles away, and then you can hear ancient music in the pines.

Whoso meditates on the Omniscient, the Ancient, more minute than the atom, yet the Ruler and Upholder of all, Unimaginable, Brilliant like the Sun, beyond the reach of darkness.

Those who gave thee a body furnished it with weakness, but he who gave you a soul armed you with resolution. Use it, and be wise.

Todo en él era viejo excepto sus ojos.

We travel to ancient times by reading history books.

What is deemed as “his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by the victors...Now, with the help of the Roman historian Tacitus, I shall tell you Queen Boudicca’s story, her-story……

Whether or not the fame of Gilgamesh of Uruk had reached the Aegean – and the idea is attractive – there can be no doubt that it was as great as that of any other hero. In time his name became so much a household word that jokes and forgeries were fathered onto it, as in a popular fraud that survives on eighth-century B.C. tablets which perhaps themselves copy an older text. This is a letter supposed to be written by Gilgamesh to some other king, with commands that he should send improbable quantities of livestock and metals, along with gold and precious stones for an amulet for Enkidu, which would weigh no less that thirty pounds. The joke must have been well received, for it survives in four copies, all from Sultantepe.

Who knows for certain? Who shall here declare it? Whence was it born, whence came creation? The gods are later than this world's formation; Who then can know the origins of the world? None knows whence creation arose; And whether he has or has not made it; He who surveys it from the lofty skies. Only he knows- or perhaps he knows not.

Wind blew snow crystals back and forth between the graves. The ancient pines creaked overhead.

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

Word has it . . . the stone is from Japan, it's very ancient, it belonged to a shogun in the eleventh century." - a taxidermist

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

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

All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'.

An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!

An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.

Ancient Hawaiians say: When you're itching for the waves, the only lotion is the ocean.

Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.

Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.

Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.

Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine and human; and to change within stasis. Western man is virtually alone in wanting to make his God into a fortress and personal immortality into a bulwark against time.

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

An ancient Vedic aphorism says, "Infinite flexibility is the secret to immortality." When we cultivate flexibility in or consciousness, we renew ourselves in every moment and reverse the aging process.

As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.

An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.