Five Centuries Quotes
12 quotes by 11 authors
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Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing…
— Winston Churchill
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The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions, including five centuries…
— Barbara G. Walker
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Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with…
— Arthur Koestler
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For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding.…
— Jacques Attali
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One canon reduced to writing by God himself, two testaments, three creeds, four general councils, five centuries, and the series of Fathers in that period…
— Lancelot Andrewes
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When you consider what you would love to accomplish in your life but feel ill-prepared to bring it about, picture the eighty-nine Michelangelo living five…
— Wayne Dyer
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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.
— Thomas Bulfinch
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You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.
— Garrett Fort
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For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding.…
— Jacques Attali
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Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.
— Ray Bradbury
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When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western…
— Arne Glimcher
Who Wrote These Five Centuries Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 12 Five Centuries Quotes as follows: