For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The span of a man is three score and 10, or thereabouts. As most Americans are not especially keen on availing themselves… — Theodore Beale Copy Share Image
“But if it be true, as every prospect assures us, that the human race shall not again relapse into its ancient barbarity;… — Nicolas de Condorcet Copy Share Image
“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
We had a TV studio in high school and I would write, produce, and act in movies with my friends... I then… — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
“The history of ideas, then, is the discipline of beginnings and ends, the description of obscure continuities and returns, the reconstitution of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I see life everywhere I look. I get the energy off the water. Hawaii really, when I am there, it feels like… — Natalie Maines Copy Share Image
If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history,… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
“The role of a socially committed historian is to use history, not so much to documentthe past as to restore to the… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
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The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Going into any prison is deeply confusing if you know anything about the racial demographics of America. The extreme overrepresentation of people… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
That is to say, the inspiration, the interpretive richness of the text is what Elie [Wiesel] does publicly, and his interest in… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
“All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“Have no fear whatever of the Romans; for they are superior to us neither in numbers nor in bravery… Let us, therefore,… — Dio Cassius Copy Share Image
“Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects - inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too… — K.J. Bishop Copy Share Image
“The claim to a national culture in the past does not only rehabilitate that nation and serve as a justification for the… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I now know that to do a worthwhile family history I must interpret the past without falling into either demonizing or unquestioning… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
“What rivets me to history is seeing / arts of survival turned / to rituals of self-hatred. This / is colonization. Unborn… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural… — Ronald Hutton Copy Share Image
I think it's important to humanize history; fiction can help us remember. A lot of books I've read in the past have… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Concerning alchemy it is more difficult to discover the actual state of things, in that the historians who specialise in this field… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. And the fact that we have… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Looking at the history of our country, we have been and we are pro-immigrant, but we aren't going to be much of… — Wendy Long Copy Share Image
“If Henry Adams, whom you knew slightly, could make a theory of history by applying the second law of thermodynamics to human… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Until that moment, I hadn't realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
The human brain long ago evolved a mechanism for rewarding us when we encountered new information: a little shot of dopamine in… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
It is curious that the two best-known British historians in the United States are Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson, each of whom… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“The reality of an historic struggle for civil rights has degenerated into the hustling rhetoric of Newspeak. “Equal opportunity” now means preferential… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable number of… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
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