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702 Greek quotes by 506 unique authors

• The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner… — Joseph Stowell
• Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. — Edward Bond
• The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry,… — Sam Keen
• The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. — John F. Kennedy
• I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy. — Nicholas Sparks
• Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
• The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom,… — Henry Grady Weaver
• .. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek oikos, "referring originally… — Unknown Author
• The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself… — Karl Jaspers
• There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you… — Paul the Apostle
• The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with… — Karl Popper
• Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. — Alistair Cooke
• We forget how the Greeks and Romans prevailed magnificently in a barbaric world and how that triumph ended-how a slackness and softness finally overcame them… — Thomas S. Monson
• Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe. — Thomas Starr King
• We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
• To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends. — C.S. Lewis
• The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We’ve now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks ago,… — Nigel Farage
• Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy… — Edmond Halley
• ... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they… — Thomas Love Peacock
• The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of human actions is… — Louis Pasteur
• He's (Jose Canseco) built like a Greek goddess. — Sparky Anderson
• Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn… — Arne Jacobsen
• I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not only… — Judith Levine
• If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a… — Michel de Montaigne
• Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them. — Warren Buffett

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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