“There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.” — Charles T. Munger Copy Share Image
I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“It is ashamed that history isolates things that are common to a large populace, but families don’t disperse generational history to prevent… — Stephen and Tiffany Domena Copy Share Image
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history. — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things,… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
The historic role of the Conservative Party is to use the leverage of its political and diplomatic skills to create a fresh… — Edward Heath Copy Share Image
China's culture and history are closely related to my living environment. This country is my birthplace. It is also where I grew… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“here’s a toast to Alan Turing born in harsher, darker times who thought outside the container and loved outside the lines and… — Matt Harvey Copy Share Image
“[Dialogue between Solon and an Egyptian Priest] In the Egyptian Delta, at the head of which the river Nile divides, there is… — Plato Copy Share Image
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
“Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery… — Foucault Michel Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
For the second time in history the Conservatives will have a female prime minster, proving that we are not just the greatest… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.” — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
Big guys and historical figures are often linked because people back in the day were not obsessed with their figure. — Angus Macfadyen Copy Share Image
A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The best angles and the best stories always hinge on reality. Throughout the history of WWE, all the best storylines have a… — Kofi Kingston Copy Share Image
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
In the same way that I've no desire to live in earlier historical periods, I never touch historical recipes. Most historical cooking… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Leon Trotsky, Stalin's worst enemy, was far and away his most influential 20th-century interpreter, shaping the views of a generation of historians,… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I would love to one day see the rock churches in Ethiopia and learn about the history of Rastafari in the country,… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
“Historians are not by and large inclined to supernatural explanations, but they are addicted to a near equivalent - 'inevitability'.” — Eric Ives Copy Share Image
History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love going to the river not only to enjoy nature, but to think about the Los Angeles River's place in our… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress. — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
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