Greeks Quotes
214 quotes by 178 authors
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Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment…
— Jan Peter Balkenende
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The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and…
— Stella Adler
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The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
— Edward Bond
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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one,…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans…
— John Henrik Clarke
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There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'
— John Henrik Clarke
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Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I…
— Alexander the Great
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Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the…
— Alexander the Great
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For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and…
— Adolf Hitler
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We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.
— Winston Churchill
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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
— Thucydides
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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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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Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have felt that there was a close relationship between a strong vital mind and physical fitness.
— John F. Kennedy
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