To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Very few people know that there is a whole school of historians that have existed in the United States from the 1940s… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
When I was released by the Americans I read historian Trevor Roper's book, 'The Last Days of Hitler'. Throughout the book like… — Hanna Reitsch Copy Share Image
Virtually every subject is most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers, scientists, prophets and their original works. Great… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Why did John Wilkes Booth do it? In My Thoughts Be Bloody young historian Nora Titone is one of the few to… — Jay Winik Copy Share Image
I realized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what… — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
