Ancient Quote by Andrew Motion

“The ancients Knew exactly what they were doing. There is no mystery on why the monuments around the word are placed where they are.…

— Kenneth G. Ortiz

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.

— Pierre de Fermat

A lot of people will always say, 'I really know nothing about the ancient world.' But there's lots and lots of things people know.…

— Mary Beard

The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.

— Albert Einstein

Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do…

— Wendell Phillips

When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world.…

— Steve Berry

Who knows for sure how complex or how uncomplex the ancient people's lives were.

— Owsley Stanley

I'm fascinated by the ruins and remains of industrialisation.

— Johann Johannsson

I want to modernize the ancient. I prefer to work with materials formed naturally over thousands of years.

— Mario Botta

But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.

— Patricia Briggs

I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan and Asia,…

— Edward Leedskalnin

We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.

— Oliver Stone