Adventure Quote by Gustave Courbet

“Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n’ont pas tout su. ( And perhaps, posterity will…

— Pierre De Fermat

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.

— Alec Waugh

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but…

— Jean de la Bruyere

We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.

— Oliver Stone

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

The ancients had a term in the mystical tradition called the Akashic Records, which was suggestive that nature didn't lose it's experience, that the…

— Edgar Mitchell

Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural,…

— Franz Grillparzer

“That is to say, when the ancients experienced gaps in their understanding of the world around them, they filled those gaps with God.”

— Dan Brown

“Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make them out…

— Robert Charles Wilson

“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

The ancients said: Hulk to be whole.

— Laozi