Historical Quotes · Page 17

If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.

— Lucien Febvre

I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event.

— Pinchas Lapide

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

— Wendell Berry

I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of…

— Adolf Hitler

No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page…

— Jacques Barzun

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I am Calumny Spinks. Between me and the satin blue sky hangs the hempen noose. It has swung there in the faintest…

— Piers Alexander

“He knew for certain that she belonged forever in his arms, just as he knew she didn’t realize it yet.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about…

— Dan Quayle

By the end of this decade we will live under the first One World Government that has ever existed in the society…

— Pope John Paul II

“In my qualified opinion as a Biblical scholar, there is 'massive' and overwhelming historical evidence that the New Testament manuscripts are in…

— R. Alan Woods

I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and…

— W. S. Gilbert

I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my…

— Buzz Aldrin

All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed,…

— Edmund Burke

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

— Sandra Cisneros

Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth -…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The…

— Dan Brown

The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery.…

— Haile Gerima

Fashion museums think the more you know about the significance of clothes culturally, the more interesting they are. We certainly don't neglect…

— Valerie Steele

In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume.…

— Jared Diamond

The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require…

— Terence McKenna

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the…

— Max Weber

“You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least…

— Sara Sheridan

Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

— Ivan Illich

“Her name is Arabelle.” Marius felt her name sink into his chest like a long-ago lullaby waiting to be sung again.”

— Juliette Cross

Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of…

— Linda Hogan

One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.

— Zhou Enlai

The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism

— Nancy Hartsock

The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among…

— Charles Colson

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

— John Stuart Mill

Thus, in setting an American agenda for a New World Order, we must begin with a profound alteration in traditional thought.

— Joe Biden

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

— Anonymous

The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.

— J. Edgar Hoover

“Too many live with the false promise that their faith will deliver them from doubt and conveniently supply all the answers to…

— Anonymous

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

— Philippa Gregory

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

— Elie Wiesel