If you are looking for some of the best Egypt quotes, sayings, and proverbs, you’re in the right place! 😺
Below, you will find a wide range of quotes about Egypt that are truly enchanting, mystical, wise, and mysterious!
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59+ Mystical Egypt Quotes & Sayings!
1. “One should do nothing with a false heart.” – Proverb
2. “A man with two ears can be supported by two words.” – Proverb
3. “Examine what is said, not him who speaks.” – Proverb
4. “In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.” – Terry Pratchett
5. “There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.” – Silvio Berlusconi
6. “Name yourself in your heart and know who you are.” – Normandi Ellis
7. “A thing of beauty is never perfect.” – Proverb
8. “Love is inseparable from knowledge.” – St. Macarius of Egypt
9. “Man know yourself… and you shalt know the gods.” – Proverb
10. “Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital.” – Ahmed Zewail
11. “Whoever lets himself be led by heart will never lose his way.” – Proverb
12. “Do a good deed and throw it into the sea.” – Proverb
13. “Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.” – Hillary Clinton
14. “When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.” – Robert Wilson
15. “All things are possible. Who you are is limited by who you think you are.” – Book of the Dead
16. “He who understands music understands the cosmos.” – Proverb
17. “He who does not cherish life, does not deserve to be among the living.” – Luis Marques
18. “Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.” – Janet Erskine Stuart
19. “One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights.” – Proverb
20. “Egypt is not a country we live in but a country that lives within us.” – Pope Shenouda III
21. “The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.” – Stephen Gardiner
22. “My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.” – Magdi Yacoub
23. “My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere.” – The Book of the Dead
24. “Lord, give me strength and ability to understand when I can heal, but give me the wisdom to understand when my profession is useless.” – Prayer of a Doctor in Ancient Egypt
25. “Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.” – Magdi Yacoub
26. “It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the façade of an immense sepulchre.” – Amelia Blanford Edwards
27. “Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as ‘Western Civilization,’ long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.” – John Henrik Clarke
28. “The mountain was in labour and Jove was afraid but it brought forth a mouse.” – King of Egypt Tachos
29. “He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress.” – Anwar Sadat
30. “Exuberance is a good stimulus towards action, but the inner light grows in silence and concentration.” – Proverb
31. “Survival was more than the preservation of life. It was tenacity in the face of ruin, an unbroken resolve in the midst of defeat, a glimmer of hope in the maelstrom, and peace despite the wreckage.” – Jocelyn Murray
32. “The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.” – Fidel Castro
33. “Egypt is coming back – is becoming – is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world.” – Hesham Qandil
34. “True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awakening of consciousness which goes through successive stages.” – Proverb
35. “In Egypt, for instance, the first printing press was set up only in 1798, by Frenchmen who were part of the abortive attempt by Napoleon Bonaparte to capture the country.” – Daron Acemoglu
36. “The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble with the ice-blue weight of them.” – Rosemary Mahoney
37. “You are my country, Desdemona. … My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.” – Connie Brockway
38. “Just think, that this race of Black men, today our slave and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, sciences, and even the use of speech!” – Count Constantine de Volney
39. “The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification are one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.” – Jerry Saltz
40. “The kingdom of heaven is within you; and whosoever shall know himself shall find it.” – Proverb
41. “Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First, know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.” – Akhenaton
42. “Know the world in yourself. Never look for yourself in the world, for this would be to project your illusion.” – Proverb
43. “The people of Egypt, are the greatest people of earth; and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace. To all Egyptians: Be proud to be Egyptian.” – Heinz Fischer
44. “I saw all the devil’s traps set upon the earth, and I groaned and said: “Who do you think can pass through them?” And I heard a voice saying: “Humility.” – Antony of Egypt
45. “We pray for this beloved country, Egypt, for God to protect her safety, security, stability; to protect her unity and more so, her image.” – Pope Theodoros II
46. “Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.” – Pierre Loti
47. “To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.” – Akhenaton
48. “It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the façade of an immense sepulchre.” – Proverb
49. “You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. ‘Have you found joy in your life?’ ‘Has your life brought joy to others?” – Morgan Freeman from the movie The Bucket List
50. “Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that stretches back generations and runs along the Nile, from the concrete of Cairo to the coast of Alexandria.” – Shereen El Feki
51. “If you look at the Nile on a map of Egypt, you don’t think it has moved very much, but the river is very violent and has moved over time.” – Sarah Parcak
52. “Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.” – James Henry Breasted
53. “The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology” – Malcolm X
54. “An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.” – Hosni Mubarak
55. “Make thyself a craftsman in speech, for thereby thou shalt gain the upper hand.” – Ancient Tomb Transcription
56. “If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.” – Akhenaton
57. “We choose to believe in Ma’at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That’s what Egypt is all about.” – Rick Riordan
58. “Khem was an ancient name for the land of Egypt; and both the words alchemy and chemistry are a perpetual reminder of the priority of Egypt’s scientific knowledge.” – Manly Hall
59. “There is a positive and personal relationship between the Egyptian people and the Syrian people.” – Mohammed Morsi