Ancient Greek Quotes
Collection of top 30 famous quotes about Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek Quotes & Sayings
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I was too shocked to register that he'd just cursed in Ancient Greek, and I'd understood him perfectly.
— Rick Riordan
The world will not change by our position in the Universe. Actions change when beliefs change; collective actions and beliefs change the world.
— Matthew A. Petti
Politics. The word is taken from the Ancient Greek. "Poly" means "many." And ticks are tiny, bloodsucking insects.
— Michael Dobbs
Only the sixth sense can expose what the other five have hidden.
— Matthew A. Petti
We are not separate from spirit, we are within it." -Plotinus, ancient Greek Sage & Mystic
— Sara Rider
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word ... which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'
— Tim Sandlin
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
— Aristophanes
The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were right.
— Avery Brundage
If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
— George Bernard Shaw
The chiseled beauty of his features, like an ancient greek coin.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
— Francois Rabelais
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.
— Isaac Asimov
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
— Gilbert Murray
If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition.
— Aristotle.
The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
— Karen Duffy
Hard. That was what he looked like. That was what you first noticed about him: a hard, chiselled face, like that that of some ancient Greek statue.
— Robert Thier
Scholars tell us that there was no word in ancient Latin or Greek for "self" as it is understood in contemporary usage.
— James Carroll
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
— John F. Kennedy
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.
— Werner Herzog
I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek polis.
— David Blunkett
The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.
— Dorothea Brande
Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.
— Robert Johnson
Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.
— Terry A. O'Neal