Centuries Quotes

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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. — Rene Descartes
Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries. — Rene Descartes
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed… — Will Durant
The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other. — Umberto Eco
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect. — Arthur Erickson
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like… — Joshua Foer
Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines. — Gary Hamel
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought. — Martin Heidegger
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings… — Tom Hiddleston
As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no… — Douglas Hyde
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the… — James Joyce
Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are there other parallel… — Michio Kaku
The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people… — Dalai Lama
We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater… — Romeo LeBlanc
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe… — James Madison
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation… — Jose Marti
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. — Josh McDowell
We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could,… — Melina Mercouri
Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. — Eugenio Montale
Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a… — Nathan Myhrvold
The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries. — Barack Obama
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for… — Steven Pinker
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. — Steven Pinker

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