Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too,… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes.” — Simonides Copy Share Image
“All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When you get old, you always hark back to the Ancient… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks. — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
“It was the Greeks who coined the term “Amazon.” The word literally means “without breast.” — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
I can play lots of nationalities: Greeks, South Americans, Arabs, all sorts. — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone. — Evangelos Venizelos Copy Share Image
We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The Greeks, the Italians, and the Indians, from whom we get our ideas, erect monuments to ideas; we erect ours to men,… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
The human eye has long fascinated lovers, artists and physicians. The ancient Greeks dissected eyes, but struggled to understand how they worked,… — Tim Birkhead Copy Share Image
“We honor the Greeks because in their art, literature, philosophy and civic history we discern the early stirrings of our own ideals—rationalism,… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“Louis thought he would be all for a back-to-the-basics drive in education: a teacher, an olive tree, a bit of midday wine… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
Very few societies on Earth developed science as we know it today. On the other hand, the number is not zero -… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“To Judaism Christians ascribe the glory of having been the first religion to teach a pure monotheism. But monotheism existed long before… — John E. Remsburg Copy Share Image
“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply… — Max Müller Copy Share Image
“...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“Every Greek, man, woman, and child, has to two Greeks inside. We even have technical terms for them. They are a part… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?" — Jeremy Piven Copy Share Image
