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.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity, romantic love and gunpowder.Andre Maurois
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Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.Peter Diamandis
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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 a Kempis
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Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.Wojciech Jaruzelski
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To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.William Manchester
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Set out on pilgrimage and triumph gloriously over the infidels in the East.Orderic Vitalis
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The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.Avicenna
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As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technologyJennifer Stone
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Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.Oscar Wilde
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Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.Isidore of Seville
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Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.Albertus Magnus
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In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.Tucker Carlson
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We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.Eqbal Ahmad
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In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.Umberto Eco
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No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.William of Ockham
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Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions of the mental self.Lotoya Peterson
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Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.Marshall McLuhan
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Nothing is unobtainable to the sword.Lord Dunsany
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The medievalist has the capacity, and the desire, to harmonize. He believes the planets sing in harmony; why cannot technology also sing?Douglas Wilson
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In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.Robert Runcie
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The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.Thomas Aquinas
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There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.George R. R. Martin
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In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called acedia, a dangerous form of spiritual alienation a devaluing of the world and its creator.Richard Louv
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We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.Arthur Erickson
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Medieval learning was really advanced.Terry Jones
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Nothing good ever comes of violence.Martin Luther
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Medieval justice was a quaint thing.Frederick Pollock
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The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.Stephen Gardiner
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If there be some harder, better way to salvation than to follow that which we believe to be good, then are we all damned.Lord Dunsany
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When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.Hildegard von Bingen