Best Greek Quotes

702 Greek quotes by 506 unique authors

• Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of knowledge, alluding to… — E. O. Wilson
• We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front. — Winston Churchill
• I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand… — Robertson Davies
• We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.… — Richard Dawkins
• We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. — Thucydides
• Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.… — John F. Kennedy
• Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins? — Herman Melville
• Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge. — Isaac Asimov
• The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from… — Anaxagoras
• In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first proposed… — Edward Teller
• Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even… — G. H. Hardy
• While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew… — Benjamin Rush
• Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . .… — Thomas Jefferson
• We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations,… — Harry S. Truman
• Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey. — William Shakespeare
• One question that has always intrigued me is what happens to demonic beings when immigrants move from their homelands. Irish-Americans remember the fairies. Norwegian-Americans the… — Unknown Author
• In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology — Barack Obama
• As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college." — G. H. Hardy
• Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus! — Deborah Wiles
• There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be… — Robert Foster Bennett
• One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art. — Carl Van Vechten
• The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired knowledge," or perhaps… — Salomon Bochner
• To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in… — Plutarch

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Who Wrote These Greek Quotes

506 authors contributed a total of 702 Greek Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 20 Greek Quotes by Rick Riordan
• 16 Greek Quotes by George Papandreou
• 14 Greek Quotes by Unknown Author
• 7 Greek Quotes by Sherrilyn Kenyon
• 7 Greek Quotes by Lucas Papademos
• 6 Greek Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 6 Greek Quotes by Plato
• 6 Greek Quotes by Melina Mercouri
• 6 Greek Quotes by John F. Kennedy
• 5 Greek Quotes by Winston Churchill
• 5 Greek Quotes by Edith Hamilton
• 4 Greek Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
• 4 Greek Quotes by Gilbert Murray
• 4 Greek Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
• 4 Greek Quotes by Aristotle Onassis
• 4 Greek Quotes by Aristotle
• 3 Greek Quotes by William Shakespeare
• 3 Greek Quotes by Tom Stoppard
• 3 Greek Quotes by Thucydides
• 3 Greek Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
• 3 Greek Quotes by Socrates
• 3 Greek Quotes by Rita Wilson
• 3 Greek Quotes by Plutarch
• 3 Greek Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis
• 3 Greek Quotes by Nigel Farage