Greek Quotes - Page 2

• How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

  Albert Einstein

  Educated, Educated Person, Persons

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• Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.

  Christopher Nolan

  Jobs, Taken, Superhero

  "'He's not a god - he's human'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2005.

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• The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it.

  Louis Pasteur

  Beautiful, Spring, Inspiration

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• In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.

  Jay Leno

  President, Unemployment, Problem

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• Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a thing that is birthed from the void. And it was about that which is possible, not about disorder.

  Jok Church

  Mean, Doe, Void

  "Comics: Meet the Artist". Interview with Suzanne Tobin, www.washingtonpost.com. June 30, 2006.

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  The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.

  Pythagoras

  Thoughtful, Thought Provoking, Deep Thought

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• I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Thinking, Perfection, Age

  Mary E. Pearson (2011). “The Fox Inheritance”, p.180, Macmillan

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• Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.

  Plautus

  Gorges, Drink

  "Mostellaria" by Mostellaria, Act I, scene 1, lines 61-62,

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• The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

  Socrates

  Change, Death, Wisdom

  Charles Walters, Socrates (1994). “Socrates' - the Lost Dialogues”

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• The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

  Antisthenes

  Life, Wisdom, Truth

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• I had never considered using a hashtag anywhere other than on Twitter, but now I'm inspired. Text messages have always seemed a little flat to me, so the murmuring Greek chorus of a hashtag might be a perfect way to liven them up and give them a bit of dimension.

  Susan Orlean

  Giving, Perfect, Hashtags

  "Rehash" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 14, 2010.

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• I have friends who read my books in Greek.

  Brian Lumley

  Book

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• The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

  Milan Kundera

  Mean, Suffering, Return

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• All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Nations, Impressed, Steadfastness

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's letter to King George of Greece, regarding the Greek victory in the Greco-Italian War, www.mtholyoke.edu. December 5, 1940.

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• Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.

  Pierre Soulages

  Beautiful, Art, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Civilization, Age, Entering

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• My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.

  Amy Sedaris

  God, Mom, Easter

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• The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm.

  Louis Pasteur

  Beautiful, Enthusiasm, Mysterious

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  It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  "Golden Sayings of Epictetus". Book translated by Hastings Crossley, 2012.

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• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

  Plato

  Wise, Wisdom, Witty

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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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• The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with words and ideas instead of fighting with swords is the very basis of our civilization, and especially of all its legal and parliamentary institutions.

  Karl Popper

  War, Fighting, Civilization

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.501, Routledge

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• A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Men, Wife

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.205

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• One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reality, People, Age

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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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