Ancient Times Quotes

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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
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
In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education. — Barack Obama
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
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. — Ovid
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
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. — Stephen Leacock
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
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
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
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
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
In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant. — Laozi
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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