With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“History was filled with stories of desperate defenders surmounting impossible odds to save the things that were most important to them. She… — M.R. Forbes Copy Share Image
The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If someone said, "Would you like to do the period drama?," I'd say, "Hell, yeah! I'd love to do that!" To dig… — Steve Pink Copy Share Image
“With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality. — Pieter Geyl Copy Share Image
The people I find most impressive are generally unknown at the time of their actions and forgotten in history. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Who was this mysterious founding member of an order that would grow in such prominence in history and legend? Why was this… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“Finally, we will also discuss how the failure of nations today is heavily influenced by their institutional histories, how much policy advice… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“The history books say that life before the Revolution was completely different from what it is now. There was the most terrible… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I did loved my ex so much, but through time I had to let go, she bacame one of my past stories.… — Simphiwe Scientist Dumi Copy Share Image
“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We've achieved this historic progress through diplomacy, without resorting to another war in the Middle East. I want to also point out… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The Henty books provide training in history and in many of the highest aspects of human character... American young people should read… — Arthur B. Robinson Copy Share Image
Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I can see that you [Bruce Cole] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but… — David Christian Copy Share Image
“Probably in all our history no foe has been so detested as were the Japanese. Emotions forgotten since our most savage Indian… — Allen Nevins Copy Share Image
“History shows: Whenever people try to pull you down, you will reach peaks of success. You just need the ability to ignore.” — Debalina Haldar Copy Share Image
All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“There's a fine line between piety and wack-ass obsession, and people have been landing on the wrong side for thousands of years.” — Jennifer Traig Copy Share Image
No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced budget than has… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of technology gadget makers, hardware makers, it's littered with the corpses of Palm and RIM and… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. — G. Gordon Liddy Copy Share Image
My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history. — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.’3” — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
“Perhaps when the next Great War comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All necessary measures shall be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale. — Faisal I of Iraq Copy Share Image
“Almost every element usually regarded by historians as a major contributory cause to the industrial revolution in north-western Europe was also present… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques. — Charles Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared. — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
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