Quotes/Names Flashcards
“You nobles, you sons of my leading men, soft and dandified, trusting in your birth and your wealth, paying no attention to my command and your advancement..”
Charlemagne
“I desired to live worthily as long as I lived, and to leave after my life, to the men who should come after me, the memory of me in good works.”
Alfred the Great
“God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time…”
Avicenna
“There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win…”
Roger Bacon
“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.”
Ibn Rushd
“It is on account neither of God’s weakness nor ignorance that evil comes into the world…”
Saint Thomas Aquinas
“Now am I come to that part of our Book in which I shall tell you of the great and wonderful magnificence of the Great Kaan now reigning…”
Marco Polo
“Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.”
Alfonso X
“God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more of a sinner, than myself.”
Saint Francis
“Strange that so much suffering is caused because of the misunderstandings of God’s true nature…”
Saint Catherine
“I do not fear men-at-arms; my way has been made plain before me. If there be men-at-arms by Lord God will make a way for me to go to my Lord Dauphin. For that am I come.”
Joan of Arc
“Hey Constantinople! Either I take you, or you take me!”
Mehmet II
“The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.”
Queen Isabella (Isabella I)
“At a very early age I began to sail upon the ocean. For more than forty years, I have sailed everywhere that people go…”
Christopher Columbus
“I am not afraid of the darkness. Real death is preferable to a life without living.”
Vasco da Gama
