Ancient World Quotes
34 Ancient World quotes by 31 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.
— David Rockefeller
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.
— John Ortberg
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A Balrog. A demon of the ancient world. This foe is beyond any of you. Run!
— Gandalf
Who Wrote These Ancient World Quotes
31 authors contributed a total of 34 Ancient World Quotes, led by these top contributors: