Ancient Silk Road

Famous quotes containing the words ancient, silk and/or road:

    The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
    Italo Calvino (1923–1985)

    A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.
    Chinese proverb.

    He taught me the mathematics of anatomy, but he couldn’t teach me the poetry of medicine.... I feel that MacFarland had me on the wrong road, a road that led to knowledge, but not to healing.
    Philip MacDonald, and Robert Wise. Fettes (Russell Wade)