It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't…

No one who has lived through the second half of the 20th century could possibly be blind to the enormous impact of exchange programs…

— William J. Clinton

I don't know how in the twenty-first century we can possibly justify not showing girls things that they can aspire to, and at the…

— Geena Davis

“Europe is a landscape; East Asia a seascape. Therein lies a crucial difference between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.”

— Robert D. Kaplan

“More than ever before, it was assumed that the methods of natural science could be—and should be—used to understand and solve the problems facing…

— Laura J. Snyder

“inhabitants of countries that were colonized by the Europeans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries knew how profoundly distressing it was to watch a…

— Karen Armstrong

In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, products and tastes developed in America have increasingly influenced lifestyles in Europe, whereas in previous centuries, it was…

— Linda Colley

“Most Europeans at the end of the fifteenth century considered religious unity a good idea, but only Spain’s rulers believed it was essential to…

— Phyllis Goldstein

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

— Walter Pater

“I don't think people have made staples by hand since the fifteenth century.”

— Lemony Snicket

“At the height of their power in the fifteenth century, the Hanseatics were believed to have had at their command 40,000 vessels and 300,000 men.”

— Mark Kurlansky

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they…

— Dave Barry

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art…

— Walter Pater

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“It was an archetypal ruin portrait, a sub-genre that was terribly common during the fifteenth century. The top third of the picture-plane hosted a…

— Sylvie Cathrall

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to…

— Walter Pater