Past Centuries Quotes

13 quotes by 10 authors

• The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power… — Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp
• Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try and revive the… — Wassily Kandinsky
• I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended… — Freeman Dyson
• Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid,… — Wendy Doniger
• It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target.… — Nils-Axel Morner
• One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve… — Thomas Aquinas
• The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. — Rene Descartes
• I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy… — Lech Walesa
• The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. — David Rockefeller
• We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected… — David Rockefeller
• The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay… — Rene Descartes
• The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus… — Howard Gardner

Who Wrote These Past Centuries Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 13 Past Centuries Quotes as follows:

• 2 Past Centuries Quotes by Rene Descartes
• 2 Past Centuries Quotes by David Rockefeller
• 1 Past Centuries Quote by Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp
• 1 Past Centuries Quote by Wassily Kandinsky
• 1 Past Centuries Quote by Freeman Dyson
• 1 Past Centuries Quote by Wendy Doniger
• 1 Past Centuries Quote by Nils-Axel Morner
• 1 Past Centuries Quote by Thomas Aquinas
• 1 Past Centuries Quote by Lech Walesa
• 1 Past Centuries Quote by Howard Gardner