“But it requires no very profound knowledge of history to perceive that military superiority often exists distinct from social civilization, that literary… — George Finlay Copy Share Image
There are no authentic reports in any of the Muslim books of history of the Prophet Muhammad punishing anyone for same-sex acts. — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness.” — James C. Malin Copy Share Image
“At Tesla, there was no history, no baggage. There was just a vision of products that could change the world. Who wouldn’t… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“Sir, do you know how they were used to fill balloons, and how they now do it?” “No,” said Alverstoke. “I’ve no… — Georgette heyer Copy Share Image
“If we wish to understand our own place on earth, we must seek to understand those who have gone on before us.… — Ian Mortimer Copy Share Image
“Your past experience must be a grid through which you evaluate every decision. Chances are, there are places you have no business… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“History has been witness to heart wrenching barbaric violations from time immemorial throughout the world where battles and wars have been fought,… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
I hated history in school. I couldn't understand why one has to learn, what someone did hundred years ago. Battles, speeches, forming… — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
“The secret of all the great men and women in history is that they converted their time into tangible products.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Being a historian, if only for the day, teaches you useful things like judgment, and the ability to detect when someone is… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
I know someone. This someone, isn't just someone. This someone is fighting the biggest battle in human history; cancer. Thumbs up and… — Andrew James Copy Share Image
The future is female right now in the Republican Party. Kellyanne Conway just ran the first successful presidential race in history as… — Ronna McDaniel Copy Share Image
Jimi Hendrix, he was a rock star. But he played guitar; I don't. I've just found ways to use words to make… — Future Copy Share Image
“There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There are moments in history that seem like a mist, as if what really happens matters less that what should have happened.… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“It is encrusted with history. Embedded within it are peculiar fragments of DNA-some derived from ancient viruses-that were inserted into the genome… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“America’s industrial history has often been a history of contact and collision between Christianity and capitalism.” — Heath W Carter Copy Share Image
Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
