Fifteenth Century Quotes
16 quotes by 13 authors
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And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came…
— Dave Barry
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had…
— Walter Pater
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile…
— Walter Pater
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The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the…
— Harold Innis
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The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested, they…
— Ezra Hall Gillett
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So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has become the motif…
— Michel Foucault
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A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely…
— Russell Page
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The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
— Walter Pater
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People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth…
— Jemima Kirke
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in…
— H.G. Wells
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The fork was invented sometime in the fifteenth century, I believe.†“Really?†she asked. “Were you there?†His features blank, he looked up and asked,…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he landed. He also…
— Seth Shostak
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RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of classical refinement, and is even said to have been used in a fable…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed that by what it achieved.
— Walter Pater
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Jobs represent a relatively recent pattern of work. From the fifteenth century to the twentieth century, there is a steady progress of fragmentation of the…
— Marshall McLuhan
Who Wrote These Fifteenth Century Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 16 Fifteenth Century Quotes as follows: