Best 393 quotes in «ancient quotes» category

Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.

THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.

The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive.

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.

The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.

There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew).

There is no new knowledge, all is ancient and infinite

There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.

The rich are always enamored of the ancient.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing - ever more quickly - and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all.

There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.

There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.

There's a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are. We're a multi-bodied traveler. We're an essence. We're a feeling, an awareness that has an ancient existence.

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.

The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.

The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.

The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations.

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me.

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.

The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

The ways of the mind are ancient, but you are timeless

The world's holy texts are built on ancient oral traditions.

The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking.

The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing.

They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.

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!

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

Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

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

Time makes ancient good uncouth.

To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for no documents of the ancient period are as well attested bibliographically as the New Testament.

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.

Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.

To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.