Ancient Quote by Pierre de Fermat

The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.

— Albert Einstein

Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do…

— Wendell Phillips

A lot of people will always say, 'I really know nothing about the ancient world.' But there's lots and lots of things people know.…

— Mary Beard

But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.

— Patricia Briggs

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

— Andrew Motion

When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world.…

— Steve Berry

In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.

— Laozi

“In the highest antiquity, (the people) did not know that there were (their rulers).”

— Lao Tzu

Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.

— Charlie Campbell

“There are those who believe knowledge is something that is acquired - a precious ore hacked, as it were, from the grey strata of…

— Terry Pratchett

“The ancients Knew exactly what they were doing. There is no mystery on why the monuments around the word are placed where they are.…

— Kenneth G. Ortiz

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