“When someone does wrong, whether it is you or me, whether it is mother or father, whether it is the Gold Coast… — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
“After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years… — Ronald C White Copy Share Image
“Singers say ‘tradition’ when they don’t want to explain.” “It’s more than that.” Wik shook his head, struggling for patience. “It’s about… — Fran Wilde Copy Share Image
“...the dreamlike, bombastic wish to stand once again at that point in my life and be able to take a completely different… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“In a clock the complex action of countless different wheels works its way out in the even, leisurely movement of hands measuring… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
“I’ve been wondering something. Don’t take this the wrong way.” “Never in the history of humankind has a man ever managed to… — Julie James Copy Share Image
Ronad Reagan might go down to history as a man who in the end of this administration brought about the first nuclear… — Helmut Schmidt Copy Share Image
People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“Each family has a history we pass on to each successive generation. We bear the glories and the burdens of our name,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building—as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg sat and said to my… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
As a general rule, most recent university graduates know far more about U.S. economic history and 'The Lord of the Flies' than… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken… — Eve Plumb Copy Share Image
Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We do not have to dig deep into history to understand the reality. The examples of Saddam Hussain, who was executed after… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda.… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
“Still, if history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. The… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“It was well understood that if by the teaching of history the white man could be further assured of his superiority and… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“In the ancient Book of History, upon which Confucius himself based his philosophy, it is said... The people must be cherished, The… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At one time in the history of the Americas, weapons and armies were associated with liberty and independence, and with new opportunities… — Óscar Arias Copy Share Image
“But why? Why do you care about our class’s history?" "I just do. Besides, I need something to put on my art-school… — Natalie Standiford Copy Share Image
“Marcus had never had the opportunity to pass on his questionable genes, so he would now effectively be erased from history, with… — Andrei Cherascu Copy Share Image
There were various different keys in which European history had tended to be written. One is the lyrical key, the idea that… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“..., imagine a loamy earth that starts with genocide, then adds a mix of further disease, wars, hurricanes, murder, great fires, dueling,… — James Caskey Copy Share Image
The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans - liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal - the largest voluntary… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Europe was initially supposed to be primarily a political project! The EU never would have come about had it been up to… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
I know something about that war, and I never want to see that history repeated. But, my fellow Americans, it certainly can… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“history is not an autonomous or complementary category of epistemology. Rather, Van Til held that an ontological knowledge of God is given… — William D. Dennison Copy Share Image
“The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If we're ignorant of the historical sacrifices that made our liberties possible, we will be less likely to make the sacrifices again… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For...… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
If you're constantly being reminded of the ways in which your history and your narrative as a people were rooted in loss… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
When I went to high school - that's about as far as I got - reading my U.S. history textbook, well, I… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image