Best Greek Wisdom

702 Greek quotes by 506 unique authors

• Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama. — Eric Johnston
• The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were… — Avery Brundage
• On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was… — Nia Vardalos
• What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American… — Nia Vardalos
• I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence… — Nia Vardalos
• Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. — Edmund Waller
• Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation… — Lewis Hyde
• The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory… — George Steiner
• No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
• The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks — Edward Bond
• In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present day, Chinese Taoist… — Unknown Author
• The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to… — David Antin
• This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family. — John Thorn
• The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of… — Herodotus
• Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost. — Smith Wigglesworth
• The original Greek word "idiotes" referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused exclusively on their… — Jim Hightower
• Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into the past and… — Steven Saylor
• In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet. His name… — Bart D. Ehrman
• If we want happiness, I think we should follow classic Greek wisdom and live with areté. The word directly translates as 'excellence' or 'virtue,' but… — Brian Johnson
• The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place and cosmos for… — Dolores LaChapelle
• If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars,… — Odysseas Elytis
• Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of women serving the… — Pope Benedict XIV
• I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama… — Margot Kidder
• I am confident that we can overcome this crisis, provided that we remain united in our effort to address our debt and competitiveness problems. And… — Lucas Papademos
• Greece is at a crucial crossroads. The choices that are made and the policies that are enforced will have a decisive impact on the wellbeing… — Lucas Papademos

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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