Courses Quote by Pythagoras

“For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a…

— Herman Melville

“Happy the age, happy the time, to which the ancients gave the name of golden, not because in that fortunate age the gold so…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“The divine bards are the friends of my virtue, of my intellect, of my strength. They admonish me that the gleams which flash across…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,Whose truths electrify the sage.

— Thomas Campbell

“Like apples of gold in a silver setting is a word that is aptly spoken. It is a golden ring, an ornament of finest…

— Richard Rohr

So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life…

— Erasmus Darwin

“When the sun riseth first, the beams over-gild the tops of green mountains that look toward the east, and the world cannot hinder the…

— Samuel Rutherford

“When divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.”

— Ramakrishna

But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And…

— John Milton

“We are not wise; we are wise to seek divine wisdom.”

— T.F. Hodge

“The doctrine of the mean (the epithet 'golden' is un-Aristotelian) regularly occurs in later writers as a piece of moral advice -- a recipe…

— Jonathan Barnes

“T is sweet to win, no matter how, one's laurels, By blood or ink; 't is sweet to put an end To strife; 't…

— George Gordon Byron