“I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to tell you. You… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
“Precisely when we should be shouldering the historic task of investing this rich, safe, and healthy existence with meaning, we’ve buried utopia… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“The meaning of sex is illustrated by two eponymous heroes of British history, King Edward VII (who flourished in the years before… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
Kissinger's monopoly on this historical record has driven many scholars to distraction. Groups of lawyers, scholars, journalists and archivists have used pronunciamento,… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“Sina jinsi. Nguzo ya maisha yangu ni historia ya maisha yangu. Historia ya maisha yangu ni urithi wa watu waliojifunza kusema hapana… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“History is a construct...Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still there are definitive moments...We can look at… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Hukum Islam tidak mempunyai dasar ke-Islam-an (apalagi dasar Qur'an). Hukum Islam adalah hukum Rumawi-Barat, Bizantium, Parsi dan lain-lain yang dipadu, tetapi tidak… — Gustave E. Von Grunebaum Copy Share Image
“In telling these stories of our Nation's past, however, let's not be so zealous in correcting liberal historians that we create our… — Gregg Harris Copy Share Image
What borders on the criminal is the poor teaching and neglect of those subjects that deal with the history of ideas and… — John Mortimer Smith Copy Share Image
After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
“... my aim in writing The Watch That Ends the Night was not to present history. My aim was to present humanity.… — Allan Wolf Copy Share Image
I used to refer to my photos as free radicals - and maybe that has to do with this idea of navigating… — Elad Lassry Copy Share Image
“For African Americans, unfreedom is the historical norm. Enslavement lasted for nearly 250 years. The 150 years that followed have encompassed debt… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“For history and for science facts are self-evident and are the subject-matter of these studies, but for philosophy they are the most… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
There are so many people who have a training in art history; and if you've spent time looking at old art, you… — Laura Belem Copy Share Image
“Because (in principle) things outlast us, they know more about us than we know about them: they carry the experiences they have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At Bow Street Magistrates' Court the essential facts were established. The man's name was James Tilly Matthews. He was a pauper of… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“It is an observation suggested by all history, and by none more than by that of James I and his successor [Charles… — David Hume Copy Share Image
So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The anger that was coursing through America deeply worried her. Although she was too young to remember the beginnings of the civil… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the… — Andrew Mellon Copy Share Image
“He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been re-painted, every statue and street and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
“If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
“Historians concluded that in the twentieth century about sixty genocides had occurred in the world, but not all of them entered historical… — Patrik Ouředník Copy Share Image
[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
“The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us, recording whether in our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
![“It is an observation suggested by all history, and by none more than by that of James I and his successor [Charles I], that the religious spirit, when it mingles with faction, contains in it something supernatural and unaccountable; and that, in its operations upon society, effects correspond less…” quote by David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8d1/david-hume-538_history_it-is-an-observation-suggested-by-all-hi_559301.jpg)
![“[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between small producers, farmers, and small business people on the one hand, and wicked oligarchs and financiers and monopolists on the other.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a70/jeffrey-rosen-13180_american-history_louis-brandeis-like-tomas-jefferson-is-a_1341726.jpg)
