Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The great wisdom of the world comes from the very old.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

The premise of 'The Originals' are places that have been open 50, 60, 75, 100 years or longer that are still doing it right that maybe a lot of people, particularly the younger generations, have not even thought about.

A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now.

Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.

I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.

There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.

It's always so rewarding, gratifying to me, as an artist and a writer, to see how this music gets more important for a lot of people as time goes by. And it's not just nostalgia. It's a feeling of it's really relevant to their lives, even though it's 20 or 25 years old or more.

I think about Shakespeare. Because there have been hundreds of variations of Shakespeare's plays since they've been written, and I believe it's because they're important. They're still relevant today. 'Roots' is still relevant today. The idea that we shouldn't tell this story again is very strange to me.

I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

You don't have to try to be contemporary. You are already contemporary. What one has in mythology is being evolved all the time. Personally, I think I can do with Greek and Old Norse mythology. For example, I don't think I stand in need of planes or of railways or of cars.

To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the past.

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

Books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. These hoards of truth you can unlock at will.

Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.

his voice was centuries old

Young heads take example of the ancient