“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
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 ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest. — Benjamin Franklin 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
By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine… — Alec Waugh Copy Share Image
“When the ancients discovered ‘Phi’, they were certain they had stumbled across God’s building block for the world.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“The ancients Knew exactly what they were doing. There is no mystery on why the monuments around the word are placed where… — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a… — Henry David Thoreau 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
“Bacon, like Vico, held that the ancients were not classic models for the moderns, but their primitive ancestors – an idea that… — Giambattista Vico 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
Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
The ancients were destitute of many of the conveniences of life which have been invented or improved by the progress of industry;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all,… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Thousands of years ago the ancients had an advanced mathematical understanding of universe that is revealed in many sources. There is a… — Alison Charlotte Primrose Copy Share Image
“The allure of antiquity... The echoes of bygone eras, where time seems to linger in the aged textures of ancients. A visceral… — Monika Ajay Kaul Copy Share Image
“The best artifact was the calendar of the ancients, a great carved piece of stone as big as a kitchen, circular, bolted… — Barbara Kingsolver 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
Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption. — Anonymous 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
I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.” — Stephen M. Barr 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
“Did he actually believe in this curse? A curse! He snorted. Deirdre stirred. Impossible. Curses were for witches, spell casters and the… — Jean M. Grant 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
I have read that the ancients, when they had produced a sound, used to modulate it, heightening and lowering its pitch without… — Antonio Canova 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
