“To make the ancients speak, we must feed them with our own blood.” — von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff Copy Share Image
The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything. — Pierre de Fermat Copy Share Image
“Jane Greyson had once told me that my voice was one of the Ancients—old and wise.” — Millicent Ashby Copy Share Image
HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The ancients were subtle, mysterious, profound, responsive. The depth of their knowledge is unfathomable. Because it is unfathomable, All we can do… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“That is to say, when the ancients experienced gaps in their understanding of the world around them, they filled those gaps with… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the… — Novalis Copy Share Image
There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“When the ancients experienced gaps in their understanding of the world around them, they filled those gaps with God.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we are passing through an age of democratisation in art, while awaiting the rise of some princely master who shall establish… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
The ancients, even though they believed in destiny , believed primarily in nature , in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that… — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n’ont pas tout su. ( And perhaps,… — Pierre De Fermat Copy Share Image
Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“It was badly received by the generation to which it was first addressed, and the outpouring of angry nonsense to which it… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“The scene unfolded before him as though he were a ghost. His mother stood on the raised stump, her body tied to… — Jean M. Grant Copy Share Image
“Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite other examples—a fragment of an ancient statue… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The ancients had a term in the mystical tradition called the Akashic Records, which was suggestive that nature didn't lose it's experience,… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the… — William Penn Copy Share Image
We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“The ancients placed love and war in the hands of closely related gods. That was no accident. That, sir, was a profound… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we can start counting those kisses once more. I think you owe me a few.” — Jean M. Grant Copy Share Image
