“IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE” — Charleston Parker Copy Share Image
The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter. — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest… — Confucius Copy Share Image
In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics? — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script,… — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Barring a miracle, the family that has existed since antiquity will likely crumble, presaging the fall of Western civilization itself. This is… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
“According to the conclusion of Dr. Hutton, and of many other geologists, our continents are of definite antiquity, they have been peopled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith's revelations is not that they seem less reasonable than those of Moses; it… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
“The phrase "the violent bear it away" fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience,… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Unlike most readers in Antiquity who read their books aloud, we have developed the convention of reading silently. This lets us read… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In the highest antiquity, (the people) did not know that there were (their rulers).” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity. — Oleg Cassini Copy Share Image
Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the world became… — Edward Joseph Young Copy Share Image
It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity. — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share Image
