Ancients Quotes

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Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep… — Polybius
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
But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed. — Albert Einstein
The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying. — Augustus Hare
Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The ancients put that… — Hugh B. Brown
Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients. — Samuel Johnson
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing… — Charles Caleb Colton
The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us;… — Phil Cousineau
To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual… — Zhuangzi
Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not… — Wendell Phillips
The ancients said: Hulk to be whole. — Laozi
Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings? — Laozi
Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption. — C.J. Sansom
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature… — John Boyd Orr
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. — Edward Dahlberg
Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his… — A. E. Housman
HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads. — Ambrose Bierce
We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys… — Jack Handey
Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically… — Francis Atterbury
The ancients stole all our ideas from us. — Mark Twain

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