Ancient Quote by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

“The ancient wisdoms are modern nonsenses. Live in your own time, use what we know, and as you grow up, perhaps the human race…

— Salman Rushdie

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the…

— Henry Hazlitt

The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

— Leo Tolstoy

I make ancient wisdom relevant, but through modern research and science.

— Jay Shetty

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

— Ruth Ozeki

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

— Nigel Farage

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

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

— Vernon Cooper

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

— William Penn

“But, if we regard knowledge as an antique, as “ancient wisdom” to be collected, then we are on the wrong path.”

— Chögyam Trungpa

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

— Theodore Dreiser

It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for…

— Thomas Merton