Architecture Quote by Al Sharpton

So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I suppose…

— Eddie Izzard

“Greeks did not invent philosophy, philosophy had existed across Latin America, Africa, Arabia, India and China, thousands of years earlier, not as some elitist…

— Abhijit Naskar

The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man…

— Malcolm X

What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost. Man had…

— John Henrik Clarke

When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might…

— Ron Eglash

Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making fire, finding…

— Paulo Coelho

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

— W. H. Auden

Human beings were human beings anatomically for several hundred thousand years, wandering around, hunting and gathering. And then suddenly, at the same time they…

— Howard Rheingold

When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by…

— Walter Cronkite

First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and "black people."

— Darryl Pinckney