Antiquity Quote by Thomas Paine

“The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough…

— Thomas Paine

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

— Desiderius Erasmus

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

— Giordano Bruno

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

— Joseph Glanvill

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

“When you consider the great writings of the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Greeks and the Romans, how they are saturated with mythology, superstition, and…

— Steve Kumar

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

— Anonymous

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by…

— Pope Leo XIII

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

— Voltaire