Brevity Quote by Plutarch

About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting 'Heureka!', plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he…

— Lucio Russo

“Cadus spoke the local Greek better than I did; they stretch the vowels here, and round them off, so that words that look the…

— M.C. Scott

“But when Odysseus rose, that man of many devices, fixing his down-cast eyes on the ground he stood: nor his scepter swayed, either this…

— Homer

“When he told me he believed every word in the Bible because, “knowing what I know about mankind, we couldn’t have written it if…

— Jo Maeder

“The immutable voice of the majestic God is found in His Word. Those who want to hear Him speak read His Word, and in…

— Gift Gugu Mona

“Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he…

— James Joyce

“He was a man who formed opinions as he spoke them, or perhaps afterward, requiring him to ramble at length to grasp what he…

— Tom Rachman

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

— Ernest Renan

“The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that…

— Socrates

He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation…

— Seneca the Younger

“A few would quote him scripture to confound his ordering up of eons out of the ancient chaos and other apostate supposings. The judge…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed so obscure…

— Terry Pratchett