Top 1200 Ancient History Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making.

Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.

O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve?

The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking.

Every day, the dispensing of existence.... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient.

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

Ancient Hawaiians say: When you're itching for the waves, the only lotion is the ocean.

All over the planet, nature is being transformed into 'un-nature' at breakneck speed...My life is part of natural history. I long to know where that history came from and where it is going.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.

Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.

History is one of the only fields where contributions by amateurs are taken seriously, providing you follow the rules and document your sources. In history, it's what you write, not what your credentials are.

Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history.

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

I'm an expert at killing time on planes now. I do a lot of reading. My secret sort of nerdy side is I'm quite into history so I read a lot of history books. Now I write for a few things and I've had a few history things published, which is cool. I indulge my nerdy side and it's kind of as far away as you can get from the acting world so that's nice as well.

You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it’s going to die, it has to die on its own

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.

In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.

The story of Ilium, the ancient city of Troy, has always gripped me.

Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

I shave every day with an ancient manual razor. It was my father's, and I love it.

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history.

I am now half Asian. I have learned all the ancient teachings of Buddi.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

To change the world , we need to combine Ancient wisdom with new technologies

Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

I make ancient wisdom relevant, but through modern research and science.

India and Vietnam are old civilizations. We have ancient cultural and spiritual connections.

Belichick, I recognize the fact this is a Hall of Fame coach. He'll go down in history as maybe the greatest football coach in the history of this game, or going to be close to it.

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis.

Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.

To treat the history of Israel as I would treat the history of England or Russia or China; that is, an attempt at a scientific, historical approach.I am particularly fascinated with origins.

Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition.

The French are never happy coming to London; this is an ancient and comforting enmity.

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning.

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

People are used to seeing natural history programmes that have been filmed over many years which are concentrated, focused visions of natural history.

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.

As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.

When you’ve had children, your body changes; there’s history to it. I like the evolution of that history; I’m fortunate to be with somebody who likes the evolution of that history. I think it’s important to not eradicate it. I look at someone’s face and I see the work before I see the person... You’re certainly not staving off the inevitable. And if you’re doing it out of fear, that fear’s still going to be seen through your eyes. The windows to your soul, they say.

Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.

What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that history can be so easily reflected in what happens today.

Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists.

Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.