Ancient Quote by Francois Rabelais

Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.

— Propertius

“How could you determine a man's intention if you didn't speak his language or share his beliefs? She'd happily embarked on a study of…

— Enid Shomer

“There is no better recreation for the mind than the study of the ancient classics. Take any one of them into your hand, be…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

But this same process of the old teaching the young can also cause errors and false conclusions to accumulate with the passage of time.…

— Carl Eckart

Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real…

— George Eliot

If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and description…

— Matthew Arnold

“What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.”

— Thomas Sowell

“An education system is best belittled when the so-called educated gets hired by a company that’s owned by a so-called dropout.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole…

— Thomas Sowell

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

— John F. Kennedy

I believe in logic, the sequence of cause and effect, and in science its only begotten son our law, which was conceived by the…

— Anonymous

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the…

— Andrew Lang