Wisdom Of The Ancients Quotes

#1. The wisdom of the ancients.

Francis Bacon

#2. In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake of a ship and spider crabs moving between weeds.

Deborah Levy

#3. Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Eckhart Tolle

#4. Waitressing - by far the worst job ever created.

Jennifer Esposito

#5. Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

Thomas Hood

#6. What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.

Agatha Christie

#7. I am not one who was born with great wisdom. I love the ancients and diligently seek wisdom among them.

Confucius

#8. Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least value books, least value the real essence of wisdom and least know how to preserve what is precious!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#9. Although many people erroneously interpreted apocalypse as a cataclysmic end of the world, the word literally signified an "unveiling," predicted by the ancients to be that of great wisdom. The coming age of enlightenment.

Dan Brown

#10. I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters and sculptors never cease to find mindless pleasure are the hieroglyphics of a secret, inexhaustible wisdom. I sometimes thought I felt its breath, as though coming from behind a veil.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#11. Give me a few bits of wool to stick on the car, a good gust of mistral wind, and I could come up with a better aerodynamic package on the bridge at Avigon

Jean Alesi

#12. Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome.

Malcolm Gladwell

#13. My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak.
'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
'I never know what you are thinking. Think.

T. S. Eliot

#14. Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.

Ken Danby

#15. I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times & intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

Gustave Courbet