Ancient Quotes - Page 5

• I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Creativity, Perfect

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Peace, Military, War

  "Searchlights and Nightingales". Book by Robert Wilson Lynd, 1939.

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

  David Rockefeller

  Mother, Europe, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Witty, Literature, Good Christian

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• In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

  Nia Vardalos

  Mother, Daughter, Son

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• Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

  Norman Borlaug

  Despair, Age, Disease

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• Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.

  James Bovard

  People, Age, President

  Interview with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

  Vera Miles

  Love You, Men, Double Standard

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Rivers, Heaven, Chinese

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories”, p.16, tredition

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• How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

  Olympia Brown

  Errors, Giving, Taught

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• Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.

  George Crumb

  Reflection, Light, Ideas

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• Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

  Zhuangzi

  Spiritual, Inspirational Life, Struggle

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• To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

  Akhenaton

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Love, Life, Positive

  Attributed to Aristotle in Diogenes Laertius "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" translated by C. D. Yonge and Henry G. Bohn (p. 188), 1853.

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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• At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

  Aristotle

  Philosophy, Animal, Men

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• You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

  Epicurus

  Boyfriend, Being Happy, Courage

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• Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

  Epicurus

  Life, Death, Wisdom

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  Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

  Epicurus

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.

  Victor Hugo

  Drama, Epic, History

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo ...”

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• According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

  Grazia Deledda

  Christmas, Dust, Body

  "1,500 Greetings And Quotes For All Occasions. Sayings, Phrases And Best Wishes For Birthday, Mother's Day, Easter, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Wedding, Thanksgiving And More". Book by Emmie Marina Brunswick, April 30, 2014.

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• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens in such fashion that they looked upon insolence as democracy, lawlessness as liberty, impudence of speech as equality, and licence to do what they pleased as happiness, but rather a polity which detested and punished such men and by so doing made all the citizens better and wiser.

  Isocrates

  Freedom, Equality, Rights

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• It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.

  Isocrates

  Depression, Wisdom, Mistake

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• (The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things.

  Laozi

  Life, Philosophy, Taoism

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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