Historical Quotes · Page 26

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

— Anthony Doerr

I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really…

— Hannah Kent

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

— Samuel Johnson

“Ho! Wise men say, 'He who hath not a good and ready memory should never meddle in telling lies.'" Drew smiled. "I…

— Deeanne Gist

Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.

— Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

“Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn't mine by right!”

— Richard Curtis

Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want…

— Elie Wiesel

Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?" "Well, that would be boring,…

— Carrie Vaughn

“Exercise care with what it is you do when you hold my heart in your hands. For it is my love that…

— Shane K.P. O'Neill

The only real source of historical information about pre-Islamic Mecca and the circumstances of the Koran's revelation is the classical Islamic story…

— Toby Lester

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and…

— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

If you write a post and put it on a blog, that's a historical document. If you change your template, then that…

— Joshua Greenberg

Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can…

— Edward Rutherfurd

I never wanted to be current in the sense that I follow the news, I follow the historical moment of the day.…

— Raoul Peck

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time…

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

There are many similarities between Germans and blacks. The nouns themselves are loaded with so much historical baggage it's impossible for anyone…

— Paul Beatty

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology…

— Freeman Dyson

I'm a curious guy. I can't turn away from an investigative story, when it comes to the forensic analysis. I've done 33…

— James Cameron

Is the warming unprecedented? Probably not. There is abundant historical and proxy evidence for both hotter and cooler periods in human history.…

— Don Aitkin

“Nowadays our sense of history is being destroyed by the nature of our history - our memory is short and it grows…

— Lionel Trilling

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that…

— Alexander Hamilton

If the Christian church is to move responsibly towards the future, it must restore or renew its ties with its past. Contemporary…

— Ronald H. Nash

For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have…

— Raghuram Rajan

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

— Li Peng

Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

— Ahad Ha'am

“I'll betide thee, say I, and may the Gods, or at least the Athenians, confound thee for a vile citizen and a…

— Demosthenes

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

— Edward Sapir

Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamned piece of paper!

— George W. Bush

There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.

— Terence McKenna

Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake…

— Charles Kimball

Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.

— Peter Diamandis

“Violate me?” He laughed, a black lock of hair falling in front of one eye. “That sounds delightful.”

— Juliette Cross

“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any…

— A.E. Samaan

Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

— Albert Camus

What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

— Thomas Carlyle

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

— Herbert Read

In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.

— Ronald Reagan

“The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.”

— Sara Sheridan

For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.

— Paulo Freire