Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt.… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“historians need to treat a participant’s own explanation of events with a certain scepticism. It is often the statement made with an… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I love Swindon. OK, it's not a place where you can almost smell the history, like Rome or Florence. It's an industrial… — Paolo di Canio Copy Share Image
Had my father been alive, he would have been super proud to see me create history by being the first Indian to… — Sherlyn Chopra Copy Share Image
Life is same for everyone. The difference is only that some are living by heart and some for only sake of living — Abhishek Shukla Copy Share Image
Too many of our fellow Americans have to struggle each day against the obstacles imposed by racism, history and original sin. These… — Conor Lamb Copy Share Image
Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you laughed, and then my glove puppet would weep piteously. When you took the glove puppet he alternated between flirtatious and… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“When the history of the Great War is written, it will be no easy task to assign to each of the titanic… — Albertus Wright Catlin Copy Share Image
“The publication of the Gospel of Judas within Codex Tchacos represents a significant moment for the study of religion and culture. It… — Marvin Meyer Copy Share Image
A crucial difference between lite libertarians and the right kind is that to the former, the idea of liberty is propositional -… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
“ What's going on with you? Jared asked out of the blue. Beginning a new era of journalistic history, Kami told him,… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
We live in a very special time right now. At no other time in history has there been such mass disillusionment in… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
As a medical student in the 1970s, I was taught that the foundations of diagnosis and treatment were to take a detailed… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a… — James I. Robertson, Jr Copy Share Image
“As a reminder, that sometimes, history gives great enough opportunity to those with ideals and who struggle to test their ability to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain. — Sondre Lerche Copy Share Image
Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Flatland was a great book...Edwin Abbot. I gotta say, I went nuts over A Brief History of Time, the Stephen Hawking book.… — Seth Macfarlane Copy Share Image
I love the history of the sport and I want to keep keep building my history as a player with more records. — Neil Robertson Copy Share Image
“In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.” — M.F. Moonzajer 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
Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
“My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“What the two views hold in common is establishing the historical setting in the Late Bronze Age (1550–1200).” — Kenneth A. Mathews Copy Share Image
Sometimes our partners from other countries ask us why we have not got further with our reconciliation, as if we possess a… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
“Even the most casual study of the record...would show that strange times to be a Jew have almost always been, as well,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The history of political movements in the African diaspora is that the solution to the problem is never in the hands of… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“Your personal history of pain, by the time you reached the age of forty, was supposedto have been folded thoroughly into the… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I would describe Bloody Sunday as a day in Derry history, Irish history, that changed the course of history. It was a… — Jamie-Lee O'Donnell Copy Share Image
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet. — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
I am aiming high. I want to achieve a lot here, make history here, and make a name for myself at Everton. — Richarlison Copy Share Image
