Ancient Greeks Quotes
24 quotes by 24 authors
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As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."
— G. H. Hardy
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Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have felt that there was a close relationship between a strong vital mind and physical fitness.
— John F. Kennedy
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Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding,…
— Uta Hagen
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We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly.…
— Paul Provenza
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I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow…
— Helen Keller
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The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were…
— Avery Brundage
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The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
— Stephen Gardiner
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Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream…
— Angela Carter
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I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over…
— LeRoy Neiman
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The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another…
— Nicole Kidman
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The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
— Johannes Stark
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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You…
— Marilyn French
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The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found…
— Colin Quinn
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Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.
— Sidney Sheldon
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Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
— Winston Churchill
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The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their gods were good,…
— Margaret Visser
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In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and…
— Simon Van Booy
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The human eye has long fascinated lovers, artists and physicians. The ancient Greeks dissected eyes, but struggled to understand how they worked, unclear as to…
— Tim Birkhead
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While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone the choice of…
— Tim O'Reilly
Who Wrote These Ancient Greeks Quotes
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