No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Without knowing the full extent of the past, we have no idea whether the events we can see are typical of larger… — Steven J. Dick Copy Share Image
“In the past few years, genetics have confirmed that the hunter-gatherers were not overwhelmed by the new wave of sedentary farmers, and… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
“In recent years there has been a tendency by some Western historians and politicians to look back at the aftermath of the… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
“Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation (the differential of history, that is, the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
“Being gay has existed as long as history has been recorded. Back to the Greeks. How can something be called an aberration… — Dan Skinner Copy Share Image
The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections: the skillful evolutions of war… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Once we agree with God that we exist for His pleasure and His glory, we can accept whatever comes into our lives… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
Julieanne Smolinksi has a history in rock journalism and she's a huge rock 'n' roll fan, and she was a huge fan… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
“The highest wisdom is founded not on reason only, not on those worldly sciences, of physics, history, chemistry, etc., into which knowledge… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
“So a dog's value came from the training AND the breeding. And by breeding, Edgar supposed he meant both the bloodlines -… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
“Because this history seems to be typical of the calling of the Gentile church, and indeed of the conversion of every believer.… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Closing the dictionary and opening any history of civilizations, the curious reader might consider the characteristics of societies in decay. At the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“The Comtesse's fellow prisoners in this antechamber to death were characteristic of the ill-assorted gatherings thrown together in Revolutionary prisons: duchesses and… — Stanley Loomis Copy Share Image
Am I a pessimist? Not at all. I am convinced that the history of the human race, no matter how tragic, will… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We often tend to think of the Father as transcendent and far off in heaven; similarly, the Son may seem far removed… — Millard J. Erickson Copy Share Image
It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what… — Tate Taylor Copy Share Image
I want to be a human being, nothing more and nothing less. ... I don't suppose we can ever stop hating each… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain.… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and… — Jonathan Ott Copy Share Image
The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times,… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“Even today, most US history textbooks tell the story of the Louisiana Purchase without admitting that slave revolution in Saint-Domingue made it… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What does calling this medical care legislation "historic" mean? It means that previous administrations gave up the idea when it became clear… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Children should be taught about history not as is usually the case now, that this is the record of long past events,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Whenever I listen to an artist or an art historian I'm struck by how much they see and how much they know… — William Knowlton Zinsser Copy Share Image
“This is the only time for high ideals because those ideals are all that we have. We aren't just fighting for our… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
The government, once it takes power, nobody takes that away. If it's gained freely, it will be taken back in blood. That's… — Beneil Dariush Copy Share Image
“The historical periods I like to learn about aren’t so much costume dramas as slasher flicks. The French Revolution is a favorite… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I think the sad fact is, there's a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman. And I think… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
