“that's the funny thing about mazes: what's baffling on the ground begins to makes sense when you can begin to rise above… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just think 'Law & Order' is the gold standard. History is going to show that it's probably one of the best… — Dennis Farina Copy Share Image
History is another country and might be full of fascinating incidents and places to go visit - but as a destination for… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The warlords of history are still kicking our heads in, and no one, not our fathers, not our Gods, is coming to… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
You gotta live in the moment. I don't care what you've done in your life, it has nothing to do with what… — Mike Ditka Copy Share Image
The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I do not know how Vladimir Putin will be esteemed by the future history, but I have no doubt that among his… — Vladimir Posner Copy Share Image
I had no interest in history classes. In fact, I used to sleep in history classes, I used to bunk classes. But… — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
“The more history I learn, the more the world fills up with stories. Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The de-spiritualization of asceticisms is probably the event in the current intellectual history of mankind that is the most comprehensive and, because… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When I reflect on the issues that black Hollywood has had with the lack of representation at the Oscars, I realized that… — Usher Copy Share Image
I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be… — Q'orianka Kilcher Copy Share Image
It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men. — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example. — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal… — Jonah Sachs Copy Share Image
History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
“For that more ennobling narrative, as for much of American history, the fact of black people is a problem.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think criticism, or a critical engagement with history, has a good deal to do with a willingness to be fooled. — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the… — James Baker Copy Share Image
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“... History sometimes does know revenge, a sort of voluptuous and delayed justice, but chooses strange forms for it and unexpected executors… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We oll grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the atties of our brains as they… — Ladygaga Copy Share Image
Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“there are two different ways of writing history: one is to persuade men to virtue and the other is to compel men… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“An editorial in the Los Angeles Times [1923] wistfully asked, 'Will eating chestnuts by crackling log fires become one of the lost… — Susan Freinkel Copy Share Image
What exhibit buildings God will have! The historical exhibits, the scientific exhibits, the spiritual exhibits, to be able to see the marvelous… — David Berg Copy Share Image
It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
![“An editorial in the Los Angeles Times [1923] wistfully asked, 'Will eating chestnuts by crackling log fires become one of the lost arts preserved by a devoted people only in poetry and romance?” quote by Susan Freinkel](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/9a1/susan-freinkel-56102_art_an-editorial-in-the-los-angeles-times-19_3053011.jpg)
