Antiquity Quote by Sigourney Weaver

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

— Desiderius Erasmus

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity.”

— Voltaire

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

— Basil Bunting

“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

It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so that they…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods,…

— Ronald Wright

How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others,…

— Thomas Paine

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in…

— Ann Plato

I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.

— Nazanin Boniadi

When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the honor of…

— John Arbuthnot