Annoys Quote by Anonymous

It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

— Cate Blanchett

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

— Kingsley Amis

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of…

— Joan D. Vinge

I have often come across convinced adepts of Greek mythology who mock our faith under the pretext that we do not say anything else…

— Theodoret

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

— William Penn

Many of those who scoff at the trustworthiness of the Bible do so completely overlooking the fact that thousands of archaeological discoveries have affirmed…

— Charlie Campbell

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all…

— Isaac Asimov

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange…

— Mark Twain

“Our primeval ancestors were by no means atheistic: they raised temples and altars and offered the requisite terrified obsequies and sacrifices. Their religion was…

— Christopher Hitchens

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

— Francis Bacon

“Traditional religious beliefs have been eroded, not so much by humiliating disproofs of their mythologies as by the growing awareness that beliefs are really…

— Edward O. Wilson