Ancient Quotes

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Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness. — DeWitt Bodeen
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it. — Zahi Hawass
In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's travel' (French journee),… — Rory Stewart
The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations… — Raquel Cepeda
Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties die off somehow… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics. — Isaac Newton
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle… — James Laughlin
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe… — Margaret Atwood
Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning. — Laozi
Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend. — Laozi
In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant. — Laozi
The ancient yogis discovered that the secret of cosmic consciousness is intimately linked with breath mastery. This is India's unique and deathless contribution to the… — Sri Yukteswar Giri
The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by… — Okakura Kakuzo
When you had an â€˜anam cara,â€™ (soul friend), your friendship cut across all convention and category. You were joined in an ancient and eternal way… — John O'Donohue
Your body is as ancient as the clay of the universe from which it is made; and your feet on the ground are a constant… — John O'Donohue
Iâ€™ve got to push everything out of mind save the name of Jesus. I say His name over and over again, for as long as… — Tony Campolo
We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of the Queen-Elizabeth-Slept-Here variety.… — Jean Plaidy
The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus taught his students that what happens to them is not as important as what they believe happens to them. In… — Stanley Krippner
Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an… — Sam Hamill

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