Neil MacGregor famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together.
-- Neil MacGregor

#God #Dream #People
From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this sense, it is making things that makes us human.
-- Neil MacGregor

#People #Tools #Ancestor
Objects are better than text at conveying narrative
-- Neil MacGregor

#Narrative #Conveying
For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell a history of the world would have to include a handaxe.
-- Neil MacGregor

#Years #Everyday #World
In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may well be the voice of this mute thing, the Cyrus cylinder.
-- Neil MacGregor

#Motivation #Inspiration #Voice
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.
-- Neil MacGregor

#Adventure #Icons #Museums
Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.
-- Neil MacGregor

#Narrative
In 1600, when Shakespeares audience at the Globe heard Hamlet for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.
-- Neil MacGregor

#Wine #Cups #Firsts
The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.
-- Neil MacGregor

#Museums #Liberty #Citizens

Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the East.
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
I've got heaps of dreams.
Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

Neil MacGregor famous quotes

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