Ancient Quotes · Page 19

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

— Arthur Keith

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

— Vera Nazarian

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

— Cate Blanchett

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

— Voltaire

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

— Charles Bukowski

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

— Clyde Tombaugh

The members of the Mystery school, during the time of Atlantis, had psychically seen the subsequent ages of darkness.

— Frederick Lenz

In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.

— W. H. Auden

The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which…

— Mahatma Gandhi

In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an…

— John Maus

The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands…

— Rick Riordan

The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us…

— John Dewey

The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into…

— Patricia Hampl

The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the…

— Tom Chatfield

In the beginning, the feminine principle was seen as the fundamental cosmic force. All ancient peoples believed that the world was created…

— Judy Chicago

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

— James Russell Lowell

Perhaps the worst example of Smithsonian contempt for Jesus Christ is seen in its 1994 publication of a coffee-table book entitled Smithsonian…

— Tim LaHaye

You find yourself by losing yourself. By not thinking about yourself all of the time. When I am in a slump with…

— Doug Peacock

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow up close…

— Gail Ann Dorsey

There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from…

— Slavoj Žižek

Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed…

— Frederick Soddy

“Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence…

— Charles Dickens

I have a huge interest in ancient Egyptian times and the mummies and the kings and all that.

— Brad Marchand

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the…

— DeWitt Bodeen

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

— Arthur Koestler

I have always just experimented, and I come from a very ancient, acoustic root. It was very hard to put a finger…

— Donovan

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

— Coventry Patmore

Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence

— John Taylor Gatto

Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind.

— Dan Fogelberg

I make ancient wisdom relevant, but through modern research and science.

— Jay Shetty

In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.

— Laozi

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.

— Dorothea Brande

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

— Ambrose Bierce

The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation of the hands.

— L. M. Boyd

The story of Ilium, the ancient city of Troy, has always gripped me.

— David Farr

“Our brains dream lost ancient dreams as well as throw ropes in the air as though to catch what is uncatchable –…

— Loren Eiseley

There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.

— Jude Deveraux

On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.

— P. E. Cleator