Ancients Quotes

103 quotes by 84 authors

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. — Hippocrates
It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us the key to… — Albert Einstein
The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience. — Alfred North Whitehead
We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak save as the… — Girolamo Savonarola
May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue of that planet,… — Camille Flammarion
Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You… — Richard Rohr
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything. — Pierre de Fermat
The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and… — Oliver Goldsmith
On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched.… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Neither ancients nor moderns who were good men have done such ,a deed that, after promising ,a daughter to one man, they have her to… — Guru Nanak
One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve… — Thomas Aquinas
If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato… — Amos Bronson Alcott
The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to… — Jean de la Bruyere
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. — Charles Caleb Colton
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. — William Penn
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. — George Santayana
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Who Wrote These Ancients Quotes

84 authors contributed a total of 103 Ancients Quotes, led by these top contributors: