Top 1200 Ancient History Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

An ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three."

I met some people who help in an archeological project in the South Pacific, between sailing to the Marquesas, which is an island group not too far from Tahiti, and I think, Wouldn't that be great? I have such a fascination with history and especially history in my own country.

The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.

The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.

Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large part of the history of our species has all the characteristics we would normally associate with a nightmare or an insane hallucination.

A free and democratic society is not the norm. When you look to the history books, world history was not based on great democratic societies but on imperialism, absolute rule, kings, queens, monarchs, dictators.

Alltami (n.) The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.

That is the danger we now face. And this is why the intermixing of science and politics is a bad combination, with a bad history. We must remember the history, and be certain that what we present to the world as knowledge is disinterested and honest.

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.

The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.

Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America.

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

Very few college professors want high school graduates in their history class who are simply "gung ho" and "rah-rah" with regard to everything the United States has ever done, have never thought critically in their life, don't know the meaning of the word "historiography" and have never heard of it. They think that history is something you're supposed to memorize and that's about it. That's not what high school, or what college history teachers want.

In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as easy to read the history of the sea, as it is to read the history of Man in the archives of any nation.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.

We are not buried in history, but surrounded by it. You can't avoid our behavior being shaped by it, to a considerable degree. We have this fantasy that we are free of history. This allows us not to see the circumstances, the historical circumstances of other people.

what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics.

In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.

Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.

All history, and most especially the history of the 20th century, argues against placing ideas in the saddle and allowing them to ride mankind. Too often, they end up riding individual men and women into mass graves.

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls

The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a disgraceful story of imperialism, exploitation, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. I take a very different view. I believe that the balance sheet of our history is one of heroic achievement and that we have achieved much more as a nation of which we can be proud of than which we should be ashamed.

Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

[we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.

Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.

Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.

Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just an onlooker. In each case, history entails the uncomfortable presence of earlier unresolved roles.

There are times throughout history and it doesn't take long for either an American or a German, to think about times in the history of their country where the law provided the Government to do things which were not right.

I didn't see it as someone who worked as hard as I did. But now that Saint Laurent is part of history, it makes me a part of history, so, yes, finally it's not such a bad thing to have been a muse.

Blossom time has come and many ancient seekers are today getting their Self Realization.

The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

"What was that technique you were using on those bastards?" "An ancient form called kicking ass."

The Kurds are an ancient, democratic, peace-loving people that have never attacked any country.

Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.

The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.

We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.

I know Leeds have had a few Scottish captains but I don't look too much to that because you can get lost in the history of the club. There's so much good history but it's all about the present and the future.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relating the essential sequence of historical action and, qua history, to tell what happened, not why.

The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.