Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
There is, moreover, very little sense in preventing young people from giving expression to their ideas on the pretext that they have… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
“I was no conscious chronicler or witness of the events that unfolded in those times. Surely you understand. You must understand. Do… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“The throwing away of the four schools of law is the equivalent of throwing away of a thousand years of learning. In… — Muhammad Sajaad Copy Share Image
Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been… — Ruth Reichl Copy Share Image
“You do realize she's over two thousand five hundred years old, speaks at least a hundred languages, and has such a depth… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“I On the calm black water where the stars are sleeping White Ophelia floats like a great lily; Floats very slowly, lying… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“Seth and I used to like to picture how our world would look to visitors someday, maybe a thousand years in the… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“ Speaking Italian Italian is a Romance language, meaning that it is based on Latin, the language of ancient Rome. Spanish, French,… — Jean F. Blashfield Copy Share Image
After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“We are part of a holy community that for three thousand years and more has been formed inside and out by these… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Cellar Christians!" Foyle exclaimed. He and Robin peered through the window. Thirty worshipers of assorted faiths were celebrating the New Year with… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
“The first great literary work about solitude, the Tao Te Ching, was written in ancient China, likely in the sixth century B.C.,… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“Therein lies the new hope—Justice, after eighteen hundred years of impotent Charity. Ah! in a thousand years from now, when Catholicism will… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“The inward parts of the beast who dreams of man and has so dreamt in running dreams a hundred thousand years and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Holocaust happened, then those who bear the responsibility for it have to be punished, and not the Palestinians. Why isn't research… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The knights were disgusted. They said that all that fiddle-faddle was well enough for saints, or might have been a thousand years… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
“Looking over the grave of the Garcias I did not tell him that 1908 was also when they found the caves at… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of… — William Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
Crow paced back and forth, his form flickering like flame. “It’s been a thousand years, Alister. I never intended for anyone to… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
“I can’t think again. Not ever again. I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“The most terrible struggle in our recent history is being played out. It is not only a struggle for our land, it… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Sun and moon have no light left, earth is dark; Our women's world is sunk so deep, who can help us? Jewelry… — Qiu Jin Copy Share Image
Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with… — Dirk Wittenborn Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the origins of the religious experience, how the history of religion has evolved over the last umpteen thousand years,… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
