Culture Quote by Erich von Däniken

“Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and up amusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just…

— Benjamin Hoff

Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In these days [1908], when all things and memories of the past are at length become not only subservient to, but submerged by, the…

— Battiscombe G. Gunn

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself…

— David McCullough

“These cultures come and go for a boundless enthusiasim for histories that might have never existed”

— J.J. Ratter

The enjoyments of elegant life you early chose to abandon, preferring to wander for many successive years over the rudest portions of Europe and…

— John Jeremiah Bigsby

An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it…

— Edith Hall

“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and…

— Novalis

“People have the expectation that you're now very wise, that you've somehow acquired the knowledge of a thousand civilizations merely by passing through as…

— Chris Guillebeau

“When I reflect with what slow and limited supplies the stream of science hath hitherto descended to us, how difficult to be obtained by…

— Walter Scott

“Everything we know and believe about deity and divinity nowadays, is a direct origin of old civilizations. Everybody, Greeks, Saxons, Assyrians and Soumerians, all…

— Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis

“We are but a tattered remnant, a small and bastard race who linger on the shoulders of that giant race, a memory that is…

— Ned Hayes