One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Jesus changes our history from a random series of sad incidents and accidents into a constant opportunity for a change of heart.” — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
A Trump presidency will plunge the United States into an era of unknowns that has little parallel in the nation's 240-year history. — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914! — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“biblical history did not take place in either the particular era or the manner described. Some of the most famous events in… — Israel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
“Finding the right mentor is not always easy. But we can locate role models in a more accessible place: the stories of… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“We can study files for decades, but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
What does it really mean to have something change in you very late in your life, after you've structured your life in… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in,… — William James Copy Share Image
But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
For me. They all stood up at once. Staring. What?? Dallas laughed. I liked you better in the towel. I roll my… — Jade Copy Share Image
When I came to America, I saw the inequality right away with the food industry. And I don't really talk about it… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“Maraming myths kasi. Maraming nag-teach ng history, they do not really read. They do not know of historical methodology. They do not… — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
We have history as a guide, and history suggests that this brand of comprehensive reform ... is a recipe for failure. — David Vitter Copy Share Image
Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a… — Brian Dyson Copy Share Image
“Even though I had a history with that house, it didn't matter. You can't go back to how things were. How you… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“One of history’s most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that… — John Carey Copy Share Image
“I will be the biggest, richest, most popular writer in history. You just watch, dead reader. I'll be the biggest whore ever!” — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
“No centrism based on the temporary historical "glory" of any nation or region should any longer be allowed to distort our universal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan. — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business. — Eddie Bernice Johnson Copy Share Image
I've found that once people are introduced to Madam Walker's story, they are inspired but also perplexed about why she was omitted… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Tired of making money, I'm on a making history. Fuck how they feel I keep shit realer than a documentary. — Wale Copy Share Image
“But we had plenty of time for youthful indecision, both apart and together, for limping into the future past the unforgettable ash… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
“I firmly believe that until the churches of North America are led more deeply into the darkness of our epoch, they will… — Douglas John Hall Copy Share Image
“The heirs of Jefferson and Madison would be the Democratic-Republicans, the heirs of Hamilton and Adams would be the Federalists. But the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it,… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
I'm really in the business of unifying these two tendencies that have been at odds in our human history for a very… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
We must work together, across nations and sectors. Only then will we consign the hideous crime of slavery to the history books. — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
“Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?” — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
