Ancient Knowledge Quotes

#1. The rulers were using ancient knowledge to manipulate the amygdaloidal primal fear. They ruled through fear, preternatural fear created through soft, invisible waves designed to alternate the brain's almond. They kept the people spellbound

Amira Aly

#2. Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.

Viktor Schauberger

#3. Their yellow eyes seemed to hold ancient knowledge, as if their memories of want and drought and survival were so much more than Maria's.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#4. For the New Age community, 'ancient' knowledge is always considered unimpeachable and unimprovable, just as a diverse range of beliefs from Eastern mysticism to UFOs, energy dowsing to cryptozoology, are - though mutually contradictory - unquestionably accepted in the name of open-mindedness.

Mark Crutchfield

#5. The hidden mist of forgotten truth is not for the mundane eye to see ...

Luis Marques

#6. Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason.

Marie De France

#7. The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

John Bright

#8. Predator and prey move in silent gestures, on the seductive dance of death, in the shadows cast by the vultures of the night.

Luis Marques

#9. Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. But, if we regard knowledge as an antique, as "ancient wisdom" to be collected, then we are on the wrong path.

Chogyam Trungpa

#11. It's hopeless," he went on. "We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!"
"We are dwarfs," William admitted, "but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they.

Umberto Eco

#12. Light and Darkness. One cannot exist without the other. There is no true Master, without the power of balance.

Luis Marques

#13. This approach shares an assumption, one dating from the ancient Greeks, that human reasoning can be a source of knowledge.

Peter V. Rabins

#14. Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

Alan Arkin

#15. Mathematics is one of the most basic
and most ancient
types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists.

Ivor Grattan-Guinness

#16. The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no one, except maybe a Cambridge or Oxford don, can call you out and prove you wrong.

Steven Pressfield

#17. Humans are naturally scared and confused beings. They not only fear the unknown, as they live fearing themselves ...

Luis Marques

#18. You may think you're not blind, but can you see in the dark?

Luis Marques

#19. To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

Isaac Asimov

#20. Life is a chance at Evolution. Overcome yourself and Become.

Luis Marques

#21. The power of faith can be a strong force, but the power of knowing is even stronger.

Luis Marques

#22. Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions.

George Sarton

#23. He who does not cherish life, does not deserve to be among the living.

Luis Marques

#24. Bruna nodded. We keep the knowledge of the old world for the day it will be needed again, but that knowledge comes with a great responsibility. If the histories of the ancient wars of man tell us anything, it's that men cannot be trusted with the secrets of fire.

Peter V. Brett

#25. Maybe the Truth of the Meaning of Life, Ancient and Arcane Knowledge of the Great Unknowable Universe is handed down only to persons presenting with the correct brand-name footwear. If you turn up wearing Shoe City knock-offs, you don't get to pass Go and collect Infinite Enlightenment.

Tracy Engelbrecht

#26. The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#27. The same principles that make a spiral galaxy also create the structure of a seashell and unfurling of a fern. This is why ancient spiritual people used natural symbols to convey universal concepts.

Belsebuub

#28. To face a real daemon, you must first look inwards and conquer your own darkness.

Luis Marques

#29. Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Francis Picabia

#30. Poor are those who have eyes but cannot see ...

Luis Marques

#31. Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#32. The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

Socrates

#33. The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.

Alfred North Whitehead

#34. Khem was an ancient name for the land of Egypt; and both the words alchemy and chemistry are a perpetual reminder of the priority of Egypt's scientific knowledge.

Manly Hall

#35. Truth is not a right to be claimed, but a gift for those who are able to conquer it.

Luis Marques

#36. There is no new knowledge, all is ancient and infinite

Louise Hay

#37. Do not judge others, without first judging yourself. There is no strength without knowing thyself.

Luis Marques

#38. The ancient Irish bards knew the Salmon of Knowledge as the giver of all life's wisdom. In the salmon's leap of understanding like a leap of faith, we can see ourselves "in our element," immersed in the river of life. The cycle of the salmon's journey reminds us that all rivers flow to the same sea.

Lynn Culbreath Noel

#39. An evolved and balanced Ego can be a valuable tool for the Self. But a blinding one is always among the first footsteps into Oblivion.

Luis Marques

#40. In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!

Laozi

#41. That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!

Henry David Thoreau

#42. Beautiful sunrise in the far away mountains, painting the wide horizon with vibrant warm colors, among the chill from the morning breeze.

Luis Marques

#43. To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule of faith a practice, the Word, is very nigh him, even in his heart, and by this word he is to try all documents.

Theodore Parker

#44. Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control.

George Eliot

#45. The wisdom of our ancestors is immortal.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#46. His knowledge of ancient Greece was based entirely on a poem Edgar Allan Poe, a few homosexual encounters with restaurateurs (he ate free at almost every soda fountain in the city), and a plaster reproduction of the Akropolis which, for some reason, he had coated with red nail polish.

Leonard Cohen

#47. Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.

Tess Gerritsen

#48. Knowlede is power and Absolute Knowledge is Absolute Power or the Power of Truth, which is constantly shaping events and circumstances to reveal the errors in our beliefs.

Matthew A. Petti

#49. Despite Danaus's ancient age and vast wealth of knowledge, he really was deeply stupid.

Morgan Rhodes

#50. I think of myself as a political idiot. Idiot, in ancient Greece, denoted a common person without access to knowledge and information--all women, by definition, and most men. I am unable to make judgments. I see no options I can identify with. Is that normal?

Jasmina Tesanovic

#51. The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.

Maria Montessori

#52. No matter how hard you try, after the Day there will always be a Night ...

Luis Marques

#53. Come out, O lions, and shake off the ancient mysticism and prejudices.

Abhijit Naskar

#54. Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.

Yelena Baturina

#55. Did you ever face Death and let it stare back at you right in the Eyes?

Luis Marques

#56. In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.

Laozi

#57. Great Inititates are characterized less by their cosmic wisdom than by the deep knowledge that they are endless beginners at all times, with an infinity of things to learn

Alan Richardson

#58. Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

Daisaku Ikeda

#59. It. It is not intellectual knowledge about God that quenches man's ancient heart-thirst, but the very Person and Presence of God Himself. These come to us through Christian doctrine, but they are more than doctrine. Christian truth is designed to lead us to God, not to serve as a substitute for God.

A.W. Tozer

#60. The interdependent couple is the new setting and their knowledge of Self is an ancient treasure.-Serena Jade

Serena Jade