Ancients Quotes

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As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The… — Samuel Johnson
So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and many… — Nicolaus Copernicus
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest… — Gustave Courbet
More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And… — Tom Robbins
The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a perfect sphere. This… — Pliny the Elder
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent.… — C.S. Lewis
To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it. — C.S. Lewis
Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age — Lord Chesterfield
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to… — Peter Lewis Allen
We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was… — Peter Kreeft
Let us prepare for that blessed day when He will come again. Let us be as wise as those ancients who watched for His coming. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds of a great… — Francois Arago
The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is… — Charles Dickens
We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther… — Bernard of Chartres
The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest. — Benjamin Franklin
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion… — Henry David Thoreau
The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten. — Albert Einstein
The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding… — Zhuangzi
The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of… — Isaac D'Israeli
Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of… — Eric Hoffer

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