Best Greek Thoughts

702 Greek quotes by 506 unique authors

• In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization. — Christopher Hitchens
• Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response. — Lawrence Summers
• I have friends who read my books in Greek. — Brian Lumley
• The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect is modern, empherical,… — Rupert Sheldrake
• There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a… — Gregory Benford
• Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are. — Anne Bradstreet
• Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get… — Aristotle Onassis
• A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is… — Edvard Grieg
• Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made… — George Gamow
• Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering. — Marina Warner
• My home shall be open for the sun and the wind and the voices of the sea - like a Greek temple - and light,… — Axel Munthe
• My Prime Minister regards the economy as our highest priority and forgets that economics and ecology are derived from the same Greek word, oikos, meaning… — David Suzuki
• There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS”. — Jacque Fresco
• The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this… — Ibn Khaldun
• Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place… — Ibn Khaldun
• The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical right' today, I… — Barry Goldwater
• The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the… — Joseph McCabe
• If ever the Greeks needed a Trojan horse, it is now. — Gerald Sinstadt
• Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious,… — Robert Beverly Hale
• If, therefore, the Greeks or others say that they are not committed to Peter and to his successors, they necessarily say that they are not… — Pope Boniface VIII
• The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid. — Augustus De Morgan
• Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or achievements… — Hermann Weyl
• Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular… — Alfred North Whitehead
• The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus taught his students that what happens to them is not as important as what they believe happens to them. In… — Stanley Krippner
• To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of… — Brigid Brophy

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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