Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must… — Lucian Copy Share Image
'Confederate,' in all of our minds, will be an alternative-history show. It's a science-fiction show. One of the strengths of science fiction… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
The last tears in my eyes is the tears of HEARTACHE, but I realized that in every mistake has its own correction,… — Rochelle Navarrete Copy Share Image
“It is worth noting the qualities this historian ascribes to them: they were fearless, high-principled, deeply versed in ancient and modern political… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases - or ever has released at any moment in History - a higher… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“Sigh. Here's another fine woman that historians can't believe was real. Of course she was real. Not only is there a splendid… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
“Sometimes an event happens that is so great the world is never the same again after it. In the twentieth century one… — Terry Deary Copy Share Image
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe,… — Harry Johnston Copy Share Image
“But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery.… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival… — Ahmet Davutoglu Copy Share Image
Part of the history of black people in the western hemisphere, in some ways, has been fleeing from this notion that they… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
No library of American business achievement is complete without the story of Arthur G. Gaston. . . . Black Titan is a… — Earl G. Graves, Sr Copy Share Image
“I turn away from him and step into the vastness of New Crobuzon, this towering edifice of architecture and history, this complexitude… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“In the last days before the attack a strange feeling, not so much of confidence as of fatalism, pervaded the German tank… — Alan Clark Copy Share Image
I have a history, even going back to my time in college doing plays, of always hurting myself at some point in… — Cress Williams Copy Share Image
Yesterday is history, but if you don't learn from your past mistakes you will continue to make the same mistakes. Tomorrow isn't… — Steve Kaufman Copy Share Image
“The months after the fall of the Wall constituted one of the few points in history when the past seemed to lead… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“Here's the most startling irony I know in film history: Antonioni, who is often denigrated by left-wing critics as a formalist and… — Frank Lentricchia Copy Share Image
“As people like sharing pieces of their history, let us listen to how they speak, what they say, but precisely what they… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Of course, like the brain itself, every technology has an inherent bias. It has within its physical form a predisposition toward being… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Don’t you have a class this morning, Georgie?” Day mumbled something that sounded like “Ancient History of the Near East and Greece.”… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“You’re not making sense,” said Nate. He took her hand, and his purple halo pulsed. “This is hard enough. If you keep… — Jason Matthews Copy Share Image
if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution,… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
China has been on a historic commodities binge as it doubled the size of its economy in recent years to become one… — Kelly Evans Copy Share Image
“Education continued to come under particularly strong fire...: If women learned how to manage in the world as well as men, if… — Lillian Faderman Copy Share Image
I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for history - not just… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
I try to be as faithful as possible to the facts as I understand them, but any story is at least partly… — Jason Lutes Copy Share Image
There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world… — William Osler Copy Share Image
![“On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who will ever be able to write it? Nobody, except merely its external facts... all its councils, designs and discussions having been conducted by Congress [behind] closed doors - and no…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1ae/thomas-jefferson-43_able_on-the-subject-of-the-history-of-the-ame_314441.jpg)
