Consideration Quote by 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

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.

— Pierre de Fermat

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

— Albert Einstein

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

— Rene Descartes

“The ancients were subtle, mysterious, profound, responsive. The depth of their knowledge is unfathomable. Because it is unfathomable, All we can do is describe…

— Lao Tzu

“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

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

— Desiderius Erasmus

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

— Stephen Leacock

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

— Laozi

My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but…

— John Dominic Crossan

“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