Ancient Quotes

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

Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room

Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.

Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO.

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance.

"Difficulty" is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are.

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

We're animals, I think we forget that. I think there is an ancient archetypal memory that still exists within us. If we deny that, what is the cost? So I do think it's what binds us as human beings.

From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.

Young heads take example of the ancient

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage in normal play.

People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.

If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.

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

Eat only until you're 4/5 full. An ancient Japanese injunction.

An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.

Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law.

People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business.

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

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

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

Spying has always gone on since ancient times.

Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.

Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors.

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

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest.

Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.

Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.

There is no new knowledge, all is ancient and infinite

Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.

Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall.

Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is new.

The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical fitness.

Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate so much opposition to science?

I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While the wind howls and the vultures sing

Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.

A little part of my life is built around ancient art.

I'm always researching ancient religions, and I was also raised Jehovah's Witness, so that kind of scarred me for life.

I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and deeply meaningful part of life.

True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.