Best century & 17th-century Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an incredible challenge because of the way people carried themselves. There are so many incredible stories within those centuries - just the language and the way they carried themselves and what they were going through.”

People Way Stories Would Be Language Challenges Pieces Century Periods Incredibles 17th Century

Author:Amy Smart

“Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.”

Has Beens Risk Century Agents Experts 17th Century Insurance Agent

Author:Charles Duhigg

“You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims.”

Way America Talking Century Maxims Polish Commonplace Polished Gauges 17th Century

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy.”

Thinking Knows Practice Economy Rocks Century Burning Alternatives 17th Century

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“The technologies for the alternative energy sources exists today. The economics are compelling. The public health is compelling. Why would we maintain a focus on a 17th-century technology, when there are 21st-century alternatives that are both necessary and available? And the answer is the subversion of democracy.”

Today Energy Answers Technology Democracy Focus Century Source Economics Available Alternatives Compelling 21st Century Public Health Energy Sources Subversion 17th Century Alternative Energy

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the 17th century, until which time the world was, in the above respects, far less different from the world of any previous epoch of recorded history than it is from the world of today. The modern predicament is the set of problems these changes have bequeathed us.”

World Different Problem Today Political Social Economic Modern Century Intellectual Aesthetic Technological Modernity Altered Epoch Ensemble Predicaments 17th Century

Author:George Scialabba

“Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the rules.”

Can Do Break Century Composer 17th Century Stravinsky Rachmaninoff

Author:Aaron Zigman

“I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and that's about my only connection to the modern world.”

World Looks Use Modern Century Internet Computer Connections Modern World Cellphone 17th Century

Author:Iris Apfel

“Religion is a practical discipline and in the 17th century in the West, we turned it onto a head trip. But it's like dancing, or swimming, or driving, which you can't learn by texts. You have to get into the car and learn how to manipulate the vehicle.”

Century Car Discipline Dancing West Driving Practicals Swimming Vehicle Manipulate 17th Century

Author:Karen Armstrong

“[17th-century] Puritans were the first modern parents. Like many of us, they looked on their treatment of children as a test of their own self-control. Their goal was not to simply to ensure the child's duty to the family, but to help him or her make personal, individual commitments. They were the first authors to state that children must obey God rather than parents, in case of a clear conflict.”

Firsts Children Self States Helping Individual Parent Goal Cases Clear Modern Century Duty Conflict Commitment Tests Treatment Self Control Puritan 17th Century

Author:C. Sommerville

“Recently I was reading somewhere or other an Italian curio-dealer who attempted to sell a 17th century crucifix to J.P. Morgan. Inside it was concealed a stiletto. What a perfect symbol of the Christian religion.”

Christian Reading Perfect Century Sells Symbols Italian Concealed Dealer 17th Century Stilettos

Book:The complete works of George Orwell

Source: The complete works of George Orwell

“Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.”

Two Facts Form Known Century Ignorance Ready Scientist Obvious Scripture Conclusion Explanation Science And Religion Quarrels Impatient 19th Century Clumsy Collision 17th Century

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Technologically I live in the 17th century. I have a very simple cell phone. I say I live through the kindness of strangers, because if they see something on the Net they type it out and send it to me.”

Ifs Simple Kindness Century Type Phones Stranger Cells Cell Phone 17th Century

Author:Iris Apfel

“Perhaps people need to understand some history here. Rene Descartes, in the late 16th, early 17th century, postulated that body, mind, physicality and spirituality belonged to different realms of reality that didn't interact. On a positive side, it got the Inquisition off the backs of the intellectuals and they quit burning them at the stake for disagreeing with the Church.”

People Needs Mind Different Body Reality Spirituality Sides Church Century Late Quitting Burning Realms Stakes Physicality Inquisition 17th Century

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is exported to the world by the theocracies of the governments of Iran and Saudi Arabia. Just like the Catholic Church in the 17th century did religious propaganda to challenge the Protestant Reformation, these ideologies are trying to define the way Muslims express Islam in the world.”

“17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of experimental methods in psychology. It shows no disrespect for the brilliance of Descartes or Kant to acknowledge that the psychology which they worked with was primitive by comparison with what is available today in the cognitive sciences, any more than it shows disrespect for the brilliance of Aristotle to acknowledge that the physics he worked with does not compare with that of Newton or Einstein.”

“I'm from Holland and the history of "Admiral" is something you would read about when you're at school. Nobody knows about these stories and when you go to any museum in Holland, you will see these paintings of these 17th century sea beckels that the Dutch were in to, so it always intrigued me.”

Knows Stories School Sea Century Painting Museums Nobody Knows Intrigued Dutch Holland Admiral 17th Century

Author:Roel Reine

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