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People never know what's going on while it's happening. You think, during the Renaissance, people called it 'The Renaissance'?

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

It'd be nice to be what they call a Renaissance man.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.