Quotes About Hypatia

#1. The Library of Alexandria?" I ask. "Didn't that burn down?"
Mrs Philipoulus scoffs. "Damn fool Hypatia. Athena tried to convince her to install a sprinkler system. But no-o-o, no one was going to tell the librarianatrix how to run her library.

Tera Lynn Childs

#2. In the year 415, the woman scientist Hypatia, head of the legendary Alexandria library, was beaten to death by Christian monks who considered her a pagan. The leader of the monks, Cyril, was canonized a saint.

James A. Haught

#3. Hypatia, like all girls who intend to be good wives, made it a practice to look on any suggestions thrown out by her future lord and master as fatuous and futile.

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. I am constantly amazed by how little difference there is between religions.' Selene sighed. 'It seems the arguments are always over the details. Mary or Isis, Jesus or Horus. Maybe Hypatia is right and names don't matter, just the search for godliness in the life we live.

Faith L. Justice

#5. [Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner belonged to] that small army of brave people who made it their duty, without thought of themselves or hope or expectation of reward, to strive for unpopular causes.
[Chapman Cohen on the death of noted freethinker and peace advocate Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner]

Chapman Cohen

#6. All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

Hypatia

#7. She sat beside him in the car, feeling no desire to speak, knowing that neither of them could conceal the meaning of their silence.

Ayn Rand

#8. I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.

Angelique Kidjo

#9. Heresy makes for progress.

Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

#10. It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

Nick Harkaway

#11. Just because you like me doesn't make me what you want or need.

Alexandra Adornetto

#12. Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.

Nora Roberts

#13. Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Hypatia

#14. Regret nothing. Everything broken can be remade. And everything remade can once again be broken

Kulpreet Yadav

#15. Away with all these gods and godlings; they are worse than useless.

Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

#16. He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

Hypatia

#17. Less power to religion, the greater power to knowledge

Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

#18. What comes, is called.

Ki Longfellow

#19. To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force ... Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

Hypatia

#20. You've got to admire Sir Richard Branson. He is a completely different style of businessman to me, but you have got to admire what he has achieved.

Alan Sugar

#21. Breath is the king of mind.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#22. To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing,

Hypatia

#23. I was brought up Christian, then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist ... This movie [Agora] is about fundamentalism and hate.

Alejandro Amenabar

#24. I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me.

Neneh Cherry

#25. I would love to have MS Dhoni in KKR.

Shahrukh Khan

#26. I am a planet orbiting my sun," He whispered, forcing me to step closer to hear him. "I am only Mathias.

Shari Richardson