Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I will not surrender my profession simply because men throughout history have been unduly enamored of their penises!" - Dr. Christine Putnam” — Jordan L. Hawk Copy Share Image
I'm a historian. I really like the past. But most people seem far more interested in what you can tell them about… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“History sometimes reproduces, at a distance of many years, the same combinations of circumstances that generate great achievements. But nothing ever repeats… — Valerio Massimo Manfredi Copy Share Image
It would be presumptuous to say writing a book would be a sufficient gesture, but if people were more preoccupied with the… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. — William Morris Copy Share Image
Evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of life. It is simply a history of the process of life. With the… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
“For many people it is depressing even to move house. A lost fragment of life always remains. To move to another town,… — Franz Werfel Copy Share Image
“History isn't written by the winners - it's written by everyone - it's a jigsaw of facts from contradictory sources. But every… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
“Chekhov, knowing the weight of his own country’s history of serfdom, spoke of how Russians must squeeze the slave out of themselves,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Floyd Paterson? Boy, he's the complete opposite to me. He no way like me. They go down in history for just being… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
There was not one cause for our internment, but many - a deep-seated racial prejudice working on top of fear, distrust, and… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of… — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
“You will leave your foot print in the sand of history if you understand and apply the power of time conversion.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“We were once the ones who were dreaming and loving and screwing. We were once the ones who were living, and then… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“There is no great person in history who gained mastery in a particular skill without first investing so much time into perfecting… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
If you look at our history, this is a club that has always represented the values of citizenship, sport and democracy in… — Joan Laporta Copy Share Image
Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led… — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
“The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less… — Katherine Reay Copy Share Image
“The history of science is the back-and-forth movement of trial-and-error advances and retreats, punctuated by moments of brilliance and marred by periods… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding. — Juan Antonio Samaranch Copy Share Image
“Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.” — Fred Whitehead Copy Share Image
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
When I first came in the league, a lot of people were surprised by my knowledge about the history of the game. — Tony Parker Copy Share Image
'The Last Kingdom''s got its roots in history, and it's a lot grittier. It doesn't have the 'Game of Thrones' gloss. — Alexander Dreymon Copy Share Image
It's just a great school and they have a history of developing big men. Georgetown is definitely a great option for me. — Nerlens Noel Copy Share Image
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Some of Donald Trump's gifts that obviously allowed him to execute one of the biggest political upsets in history, those are ones… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin. — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
