Ancient Quotes - Page 37

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

  Confucius

  Teacher, Teaching, May

  Confucius (2016). “Chinese Literature”, p.13, Confucius

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day.

  Edward Bach

  Art, Healing, Years

  Edward Bach, F. J. Wheeler (1998). “The Bach Flower Remedies”, p.10, McGraw Hill Professional

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda.

  Wendy Doniger

  Vedas, Sacred, Study

  Wendy Doniger (2010). “The Hindus: An Alternative History”, p.36, Oxford University Press, USA

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating speaker on Zen, Taoism, Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity and ancient Greek philosophy... and also a prolific author.

  Nevill Drury

  Philosophy, Teaching, Buddhism

  6 Copy quote

• Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.

  Robin S

  One Day, Twenties, Habit

  6 Copy quote

• The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defense for being the god who permits war, poverty, and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the bench and God is in the dock.

  C. S. Lewis

  War, Men, Should Have

  6 Copy quote

• On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.

  P. E. Cleator

  Civilization, Dying, Crumbling

  4 Copy quote

• Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Punishment, Festivals, Cruelty

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Arlie J. Hoover (1994). “Friedrich Nietzsche: His Life and Thought”, Praeger Publishers

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  George Gissing

  Writing, People, Prejudice

  George Gissing (2015). “New Grub Street”, p.11, Booklassic

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Truth, School, Charity

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.

  Charlie Campbell

  Ignorance, Biblical, Discovery

  6 Copy quote

• Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have allowed scholars and textual critics to go back and verify that the Bible we have in our possession today is the same Bible that the early church possessed 2,000 years ago.

  Charlie Campbell

  Bible, Hands, Years

  15 Copy quote

• One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every other ancient religious writing contains certain scientific errors. For example, Muhammad taught in the Qur'an that the sun descends down into a muddy spring. The Hindu Vedas state that the Earth is flat and triangular, that earthquakes are caused by elephants shaking themselves under it. You'll never read absurd statements like those in the Bible.

  Charlie Campbell

  Bible, Religious, Spring

  5 Copy quote

• Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. The symbol of art is seen again in the magic flute of the Great God Pan which makes the young goats frisk at the edge of the grove. All modern art begins to appear comprehensible and in a way great when it is interpreted as an attempt to instill youthfulness into an ancient world.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Art, Men, Magic

  "The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter "Art a Thing of No Consequence", 1925.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.

  Winston Churchill

  Christian, War, Struggle

  "The World Crisis, Volume I: 1911-1914". Book by Winston Churchill, 1923.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Break not an ancient friendship; keep it hale; Stir round its roots, that it be green of heart; Let not the spirit of its growth depart: It is a power to brave the strongest gale.

  J. K. Rowling

  Friends, Heart, Roots

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  George William Russell

  Hero, Childhood, Sorrow

  'Germinal' (1931)

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong; but a living language depends equally on the 'legends' which it conveys by tradition. ... Volapuk, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c &c are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  War, Discovery, Esperanto

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

  Arthur Ashe

  Spiritual, Commitment, Pride

  "Days of Grace: A Memoir". Book by Arnold Rampersad and Arthur Ashe, p. 186, 1993.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose, like blood, like the seeds of the pomegranate, like red lead, like the red lotus, like saffron, like the resin of certain trees, like the eyes of the Greek partridge or the Indian crane…and like the interior of the half-blown water lily.’ With so many gorgeous descriptive possibilities it is curious that in English the two ancient names for rubies have come to sound incredibly ugly.

  Victoria Finlay

  Eye, Blood, Color

  16 Copy quote

• You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. .

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Iron, Long

  4 Copy quote

• It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an ancient and barbarous world in our dealing with crime. So long as this is observed and exercised there can be no change except to heap more cruelties and more wretchedness upon those who are the victims of our foolish system.

  Clarence Darrow

  Past, Practice, Years

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.93, Lulu.com

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths, all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Spring, Humanity, Mountain

  Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich Du ntzer, Percy Pinkerton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1902). “The Maid of Oreleans; The Bride of Messina; Wilhelm Tell; Demetrius; The Piccolomini; The Death of Wallenstein; Wallenstein's Camp”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to represent an infinite shading of meaning. It is a character they share with the Ojibway and the Zulu.

  Stephen Leacock

  Character, Alive, Language

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.49, University of Toronto Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we're thinking about old civilizations, those that formed a long time ago and there were stars and planets around long before Earth even existed, then these are going to be towards the center of the galaxy. That is the place to look if you think there are ancient civilizations that have made beacons or some other way of attracting our attention.

  Paul Davies

  Stars, Thinking, Civilization

  Source: bigthink.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source