“Of course, there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History and exact science he must learn by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.” Sara looked directly into his eyes. “If nothing else,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I consider myself a progressive, so my answer would be that we need to be progressive. For some reason the people in… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“...neither fate, nor history, nor the anger of the State, nor the glory or infamy of battle has any power to affect… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
The evils that arise to us from the structure of the material universe are neither trivial nor few, yet the history of… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Qatar does not have much history, it's a new emirate. So I couldn't draw on the history of the country; its history… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
“In a way, underdevelopment is a paradox. Many parts of the world that are naturally rich are actually poor and parts that… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
“It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That’s not quite correct. We all forget… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
[Albert] Hoxie, my Western Civilization professor. I had him in my freshman year and he opened up an extraordinary world to me… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Did they like being maids & butlers? Before you answer this consider everything you've ever read about English history after Robin Hood… — Chris Kelly Copy Share Image
They say that 'history is an argument without end.' In Thompson's skillful hands, this momentous argument between two old friends on the… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
“My dad was a rebel. A half-destroyed history book hidden in his room, friends at his funeral I knew nothing about . . .… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
The signs of the antichrist spirit are clear. They emerge in this fashion: A significant minority then an actual majority, of the… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Turning the pages of scriptural history from beginning to end, we learn of the ultimate pioneer-even Jesus Christ. His birth was foretold… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“History has taught us that when understanding and tolerance are fostered, people of different faiths can live together in harmony. Regrettably, history… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
“At her funeral, Diana's brother observed, 'Of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this--- a girl given the name… — Kris Waldherr Copy Share Image
It is simply an invariable truth in the history of politics, in the history of government, that whenever a new power is… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“In mythic terms, the earth is a place of mystery and wonder where life always hangs by a thread and all the… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“A rune for the very bored: when very bored say to yourself: "It was during the next twenty minutes that there occurred… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Prague is far more than the sum of its physical parts or its history. It is a city of the mind and… — Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“That philosophy died yesterday, since Hegel or Marx, Nietzsche, or Heidegger—and philosophy should still wander toward the meaning of its death—or that… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should… — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
“Most of history is indisputably written by the winners, yet "winning" at Poitiers actually meant that the economic, scientific, and cultural levels… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
Your history's not going to go away; it isn't the same thing as dirt on the floor or paint peeling off the… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
“A man may possess a profound knowledge of history and mathematics; he may be an authority in psychology, biology, or astronomy; he… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
The Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
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