Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old medieval quotes, medieval sayings, and medieval proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Don't depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.Ibn Taymiyyah
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There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark AgesRichard Lederer
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Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.Hendrik Poinar
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Ah, life in medieval times! Yeah, we only have to worry about losing our heads every day.David Kuklis
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Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too.Alexander Cockburn
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Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.Alfonso X
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Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.Barbara Tuchman
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If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?Barbara Tuchman
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We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god like technology.E. O. Wilson
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Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render every one his due.Emperor Justinian
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Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.Eric Topol
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.Geoffrey Chaucer
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Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.Ian Hacking
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We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.James Randi
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Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.Kenneth E. Boulding
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The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all and yet they still meet daily.Madeleine L'Engle
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Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalism. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.Martin Amis
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The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification it is like medieval medicine.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration.Neil Postman
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Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.Peter Singer
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A tale is but half told when only one person tells it.The Saga of Grettir the Strong
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Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing higher, nothing stronger, nothing larger, nothing more joyful, nothing fuller, and nothing better in heaven or on earth.Thomas à Kempis
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.Vince Lombardi
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Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.Wilhelm Dilthey
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