Oldest Quotes

320 quotes by 290 authors

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a… — P D Ouspensky
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
In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin… — G. H. Hardy
It's the oldest, corniest piece of advice in the world but it still works. The strongest networks are built on friendship. Be a friend not… — Harvey Mackay
When implemented, the Complete Lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance,… — Ezekiel Emanuel
I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I see myself as the world's oldest living teenager... I try to get as much kick out of things as possible. — Iris Apfel
I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who… — Ernest Gellner
I'm the oldest antique in town. — Norman Rockwell
The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the… — Karl Popper
Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it. — Gil Kalai
...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women,… — John Stuart Mill
But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes. — John Donne
Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know… — Adrian Rogers
The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it. — Curt Sachs
Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession. — Phil Plait
No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25… — Jim Trelease
I'm the oldest and I've got two sisters. — Lisa Snowdon
It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin… — Frederick Soddy
My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective. — Tim Robbins

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