#medieval

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#factory #forward #knowledge #looked #looks

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#european #every #exciting #goes #i

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#deteriorating #football #hall #into #medieval

That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That's not possible. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#history #law #medieval #possible #respect

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India. ↗

— Hu Shih

#europe #even #experience #history #incapable

Love, that moves the sun and the other stars - L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#love #sun #love

April comes to us, with her showers sweet. I wake to the cries of little birds before the light comes across the heath. They wait all night with open eyes. Now, with the rain at dawn, their voices make melody. I turn back the reveled cloth of gold on my bed and walk to gaze beyond my glazed casement window. In the plaintive voices of the wood fowl, I imagine my mother calling to me, her words echoing across the years. ↗

— Ned Hayes

#imagination

It took a long moment, but Gerard finally raised his head and looked Jon in the eye. “It meant that I have not been honest with you, Jon Calder, and if you are to understand the danger you are in now, I must tell you everything, no matter if you believe me or not. ↗

— Hank Edwards

#medieval #time-travel #erotic-romance

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral. ↗

— R. W. Apple, Jr.

#europe #magnificent #maimed #medieval #mightiest

If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#face #i #joke #medieval #times