Renaissance Quotes · Page 2

We need a renaissance of wonder.

— E. Merrill Root

Seance to renaissance. So it begins

— Marilyn Manson

I'm a modern-day renaissance man.

— Winston Marshall

Senegal needs a renaissance.

— Youssou N'Dour

RuPaul is someone who I really look up to because he's very much a renaissance man.

— Alaska

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

— Sigmar Polke

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

— Will Durant

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

— E. O. Wilson

We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

— Daniel Libeskind

“Defining the Renaissance Man “A man can do all that he will.”

— Scott Griffiths and Eric Elfman

I am always connected with the Renaissance a lot; that's why I am connected with Pitti Palace.

— Alessandro Michele

We are going to see a burst of creativity that will make the Renaissance pale in comparison.

— Marilyn Ferguson

There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit…

— Juan Enriquez

Our vision is to rediscover the spirit of the Renaissance, create a new discipline where engineering for cultural heritage is actually a…

— Maurizio Seracini

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

— Nan Goldin

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the…

— Aberjhani

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

— Ayn Rand

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. -Leonardo Da Vinci”

— Oliver Bowden

Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved.…

— Marley Dias

We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance,…

— Dalai Lama

I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about…

— Richard Rodriguez

We didn't sit around the dining table talking about Madam Walker, but the silverware that we used every day had her monogram…

— A'Lelia Bundles

In some ways, it's better that Obama got elected than McCain. I'd rather be stabbed in the chest with an Obama steak…

— Brad Thor

Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists…

— Peter Agre

If you want to get an interesting perspective do not think of Hugh as a traditional 20th century physicist but more of…

— Hugh Everett III

All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims - the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that…

— Jackson Pollock

I was lucky enough to be a child during the renaissance of Australian children's literature, when people like Ivan Southall, Colin Thiele,…

— Catherine Jinks

The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine;…

— Henry Adams

It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere…

— Herbert Butterfield

But very early in life I became part of the majority culture and now don't think of myself as a minority. Yet…

— Richard Rodriguez

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how…

— Oscar Wilde

Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of…

— Edmund Bourne

To the scientists of the Renaissance, your critic was really your ally, helping you advance upon reality. Critics in science are not…

— Martin Seligman

I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in…

— Patti Smith

The law of love and compassion for all living creatures is again a doctrine to which we are all too ready to…

— U Thant

“In Venice, things not always as they first appear. I contemplate this observation from my post on the aft deck of one…

— Laura Morelli

I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.

— Hermann Goring

I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.

— Domenico Gnoli

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

— Peter Weller

Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.

— Dag Hammarskjold