Ancient Times Quotes
56 quotes by 53 authors
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Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole…
— David Bohm
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five…
— Isabel Allende
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In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.
— Barack Obama
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Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
— Ovid
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In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
— Stephen Leacock
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As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient…
— Sigmund Freud
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In ancient times, bodily strength and dexterity, being of greater use and importance in war, was also much more esteemed and valued, than at present.…
— David Hume
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In ancient times before the divine sojourn of the Savior took place, even to the saints death was terrible; all wept for the dead as…
— Athanasius of Alexandria
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Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact…
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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The Hindus have worshipped from ancient times the baby Krishna in the arms of Virgin Devaki just as the Roman catholics [sic] worship Madona [sic]…
— Swami Abhedananda
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In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
— Laozi
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Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time out…
— Jason Epstein
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In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia....All the…
— Curt Sachs
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THE PATH IS exceedingly vast. From ancient times to the present day, even the greatest sages were unable to perceive and comprehend the entire truth;…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the…
— James Bovard
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It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest, chaste…
— William Prynne
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PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as being the names…
— William Herschel
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