Ancient Quotes

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Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau
Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I have… — Adolf Hitler
Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered like a sedimentary… — Mohsin Hamid
Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing,… — Jacques Maritain
Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself. — Emile M. Cioran
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines. — Andrew Weil
When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying — Robert Greene
From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting. — Brad Meltzer
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood. — Warren E. Burger
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew… — Ambrose Bierce
It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the… — Georges Cuvier
Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can only… — Rene Descartes
Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap it up and… — Sterling W Sill
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
Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and… — Heinrich Heine
Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we… — Tom Robbins
Treating other people as you would like to be treated. It is an ancient, universal ethical imperative. And it requires no supernatural beliefs. — Phil Zuckerman
If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother to reject the… — Marilynne Robinson
If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no… — Abraham Lincoln
You probably won't remember me. I'm probably ancient history. I'm one of the chosen few who went ahead and fell for you. I'm out of… — Jann Arden
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables,… — Max Nordau
I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted. — Henry David Thoreau
Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind. — Blaise Pascal
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died. — L. Ron Hubbard

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