Best hundred & thousand-years Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.”

Years Firsts Humans Moments Body Human Beings Technology Thousand Hundred First Time Evolve Thousand Years Inseparable

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“The human race is just getting started.... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking teat and eating Cheerios. We might get better, maybe even wise, if we can last another thousand years.”

Ifs Years Humans Stills Might Lasts Humanity Race Wise Baby Thousand Eating Hundred Human Race Get Better Thousand Years Cerebral Getting Started

Book:A Dangerous Age: A Novel

Source: A Dangerous Age: A Novel

“Fifteen hundred years is ample time in which to lose mutual comprehension. Iceland was colonized by the Norwegians at the end of the ninth century AD. Today's Icelanders, with considerable effort, can understand people from the Scandinavian peninsula, but the Scandinavians hardly understand the Icelanders. A thousand years is the minimum time span for a language to change so much that it becomes incomprehensible.”

“The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew what they were fighting about, and which schisms contributed to the decline and fall of this greatest of states. Rome had thrived for one thousand years with pagan gods at the helm and expired after only one hundred and fifty years under the Christian banner.”

“If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.”

Ifs Years Book Waiting Thousand Six Hundred Contemplating Thousand Years

Author:Johannes Kepler

“In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.”

People Giving Years Two Three Thousand Hundred Scales Primitive Thousand Years

Book:The Old Ways: Six Essays

Source: The Old Ways: Six Essays

“If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as thehistory of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.”

Ifs Years May Long Stills Age Pleasure Study Century Civilization Thousand Long Time Hundred Unity Thousand Years Geology Extending

Book:The Philosophy of Josiah Royce

Source: The Philosophy of Josiah Royce

“Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and heat of the Amazon? Why does he stagger his mind with the mathematics of the sky? Once the question mark has arisen in the human brain the answer must be found, if it takes a hundred years. A thousand years.”

“Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that men were but men then as well as now; that modes and customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same. And I can no more suppose, that men were better, braver, or wiser, fifteen hundred or three thousand years ago, than I can suppose that the animals or vegetables were better than they are now.”

Men Years Humans Wells I Can Three Animal Effort Human Nature Genius Thousand Hundred Years Ago Extraordinary Customs Vegetables Fifteen Thousand Years Wiser Vary

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“It is really appropriate to call Jesus the word because God spoke him into existence through dozens probably a hundred different people over a four thousand year period of time. The Holy Spirit took these words and impregnated Mary.”

People Years Different Spirit Jesus Existence Four Periods Holy Thousand Hundred Holy Spirit Appropriate Spokes Dozen Mary Thousand Years Different Peoples

Author:Andrew Wommack

“I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.”

World Way Want Years Understanding Thousand Hundred Species Thousand Years Granddaughter Good Understanding

Author:Sidney Poitier

“Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific revolution is less than a hundred years. And computers only a few decades! We've changed so much. It's amazing, the speed of changes.”

Years Humans Lines Human Beings Records Written Changed Revolution Couple Thousand Computer Draws Hundred Speed Decades Thousand Years Scientific Revolution

Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“Just over two thousand years ago, this planet went through a change, and it's a normal thing for every two thousand three hundred years a planet to go through a new change; new laws, new things is happening.”

Years Two Law Three Planets Thousand Normal Happenings Hundred Years Ago New Things Thousand Years Normal Things

Author:Jimmy Cliff

“Human beings were human beings anatomically for several hundred thousand years, wandering around, hunting and gathering. And then suddenly, at the same time they started painting in caves they started multiplying.”

Years Humans Human Beings Painting Thousand Hundred Wander Hunting Thousand Years Caves Gathering Multiplying Wandering Around

Author:Howard Rheingold

“The Vedic literatures predicted that after the advent of Lord Caitanya five hundred years ago, there would be a Golden Age of ten thousand years, when the chanting of the holy names of God would completely nullify all the degradations of the modern age, and real spiritual peace would come to this planet.”

“The ability to double our biomass - not by waiting several million years and growing to be the size of an elephant - but waiting a few hundred thousand years for neurons to sprout into our brains - ones capable of having us create emotional relationships with other members of our species. We thereby double our biomass not by getting bigger, but by creating an ally.”

“But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that has them." Teddy brushed back his hair from his forehead with one hand. "I grew my own body," he said. "Nobody else did it for me. So if I grew it, I must have known how to grow it. Unconsciously, at least. I may have lost the conscious knowledge of how to grow it sometime in the last few hundred thousand years, but the knowledge is still there, because—obviously—I've used it.”

Ifs Years May Persons Said Stills Body Hands Lasts Used Lost Grows My Own Known Hair Grew Thousand Conscious Hundred Doctors Importance Cells Thousand Years Unlimited Foreheads Teddy

Author:J. D. Salinger

“It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.”

Knows Love Should Years Said Today Flower Thousand Ten Hundred Thousand Years

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in an hour's time, for it was all a gamble, a million to one chance, but all the same there was a chance that if they kept on shaking their chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles would part.”

Ifs Years Wells Long Hours Chance Millions Tomorrow One Day Thousand Hundred Chains Thousand Years Shaking Gamble Shackles One Chance

Book:Nights at the circus

Source: Nights at the circus

“I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.”

Feels Years Stills Artist Thousand Hundred Paint Thousand Years Stopping

Author:Paul Cezanne

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