Antiquity Quotes

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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. — Pierre Bayle
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of… — Joseph Addison
The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine… — James Buchan
The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the gradual… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to… — Ben Jonson
Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the world became sinful and evil — Edward Joseph Young
If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity. — John Ruskin
In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough prophecies have been made in… — Janet Morris
History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion… — Richard Kirwan
With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the… — William Buckland
Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who… — Confucius
The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual… — Ambrose
Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the… — Bernardino Ramazzini
Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living… — John H. Vandenberg
The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the living voice of… — Pope Leo XIII
It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic… — Pope Leo XIII
You can tell a horse owner by the interior of their car. Boots, mud, pony nuts, straw, items of tack and a screwed-up waxed jacket… — Helen Thompson Woolley
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and… — James Madison

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