Ancient World Quotes

34 Ancient World quotes by 31 unique authors

When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In… — Steve Berry
Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but… — Jon Meacham
Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare… — Steven Pinker
Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S. — David Rockefeller
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a… — Joseph Campbell
Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish five-hundred years from… — Jacob Bronowski
In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized the sun. Back when I got this, I figured if I always had the sun… — Veronica Roth
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to… — Benjamin Disraeli
Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space time, energy, information, and matter. Even though… — Deepak Chopra
In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval… — Jill Lepore
Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world. — John Ortberg
A Balrog. A demon of the ancient world. This foe is beyond any of you. Run! — Gandalf

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