Ancient Quote by John Bright Download Open image “The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.” — John Bright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Luxury
My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person. — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge. — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely… — William Jones Copy Share Image
It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the… — James Loeb Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times.… — John Bright Copy Share Image
Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world at this… — John Bright Copy Share Image
To have two Legislative Assemblies in the United Kingdom would, in my opinion, be an intolerable mischief; and I think no sensible man can… — John Bright Copy Share Image
The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America... [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special boundaries... [in… — John Bright Copy Share Image
Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional… — John Bright Copy Share Image
This regard for the liberties of Europe, this care at one time for the protestant interest, this excessive love for the balance of power,… — John Bright Copy Share Image
Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves — John Bright Copy Share Image
So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when… — John Bright Copy Share Image
As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by property, and… — John Bright Copy Share Image
This old aristocracy and Church-ridden, and tradition-ridden country will never grow wiser. Whilst we are fighting for supremacy in Europe, the [United] States are… — John Bright Copy Share Image
If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting,… — John Bright Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
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