Best 393 quotes in «ancient quotes» category

I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.

It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature.

It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!

It's starting to catch hold, and in large measure it's because we're starting to understand that much of what we have talked about in ancient mythology and mystical experience and so forth can pretty well be modeled within the world of quantum physics. That's a 20th century phenomenon also.

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

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

I would tell you that for me the sanctity of life proceeds out of the belief that ancient principle that - where God says before you were formed in the womb, I knew you, and so for my first time in public life, I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've always connected with it on some level.

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

Jews don't care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami.

I've just always been a coin collector, ever since my grandfather had some ancient coins that he passed down to me, it's just always been something. I love collecting coins from around the world in my travels but I they don't really do anything useful anymore, I guess.

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

Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new. Late have I loved you. You have called to me, and have called out, and have shattered my deafness. You have blazed forth with light and have put my blindness to flight! You have sent forth fragrance, and I have drawn in my breath, and I pant after you. I have tasted you, and I hunger and thirst after you. You have touched me, and I have burned for your peace.

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.

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.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is new.

Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.

Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.

Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to doubt in one God, to doubt that recreates and enlivens faith and doubt that is really disbelief.

Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists.

My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited and we were excited.

My responsibility is to save Tibet, to protect its ancient cultural heritage.

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?

Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

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.

Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume says that the ancient Muscovites wedded their wives with a whip instead of a ring.

Not fooling around, not bothering nobody, just sitting here mending the Primus," said the cat with a hostile frown, "and, moreover, I consider it my duty to warn you that the cat is an ancient, inviolable animal.

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome.

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

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

One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time.

O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve?

One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is hard to tell.