“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“If the bible be true, God commanded his chosen people to destroy men simply for the crime of defending their native land.… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was struck by what I had forgotten of the book: in a manner of pages, we… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“She tried to remember all the times she had spoken to him. She replayed every moment she could remember at the beach… — Mahita Vas Copy Share Image
The ones that were relevant while I wrote my book were books like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, which is based on a… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
“Moreover, we look in vain to philosophy for the answer to the great riddle. Despite its noble purpose and history, pure philosophy… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The sacred cannot be precisely defined. Each of us perceives it through the lens of a unique personal history. For me, sacredness… — Anthony Lawlor Copy Share Image
“The library is a whispering post. You don't need to take a book off a shelf to know there is a voice… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The female experience throughout the history of Korea has been accompanied by physical and mental anguish. This negative aspect of Korean history… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The 'public' has no history, has no future, lives in a golden moment created by credit, which binds them ineluctably to a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
“If you will study the history of Christ's ministry from Baptism to Ascension, you will discover that it is mostly made up… — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“And then came, perhaps, the biggest offseason move in franchise history … and no, we’re not talking about inviting Carlos Peña to… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“It seems unrealistic that Egypt can long maintain its historical hegemony over the waters of the Nile at the expense of widespread… — Steven Solomon Copy Share Image
The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Few exchanges in the history of science have leaped so boldly into the future as this one, which occurred a thousand years… — S. Frederick Starr Copy Share Image
“It would change everything, gentlemen. It would shift the entire balance of power in Europe-maybe the world. Alexander conquered half of it.… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“The most impressive naval career of all the female sailors is that of William Brown, a black woman who spent at least… — David Cordingly Copy Share Image
“Our late modern world prides itself on recognising, for the first time in history, the basic equality of all humans, yet it… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Of course there are different forms of conservatism. I would say just analytically that the Republican Party is more thoroughly conservative and… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
I wrote the entire history of Alpha because the space station was around for 500 years. I have 30 pages on the… — Luc Besson Copy Share Image
Too many so-called historians are really 'hysterians'; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When their duties as citizens clash with their… — Thomas A. Bailey Copy Share Image
When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I don't know that there has ever been a time when Abraham Lincoln didn't stand head-and-shoulders above all other presidents in the… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I find it exciting to get any historical material from the ground. As you know, I love to put ancient Israel and… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
“It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“The focus of history and philosophy of science scholar Arthur Miller’s (2010) "137: Jung and Pauli and the Pursuit of Scientific Obsession"… — Todd Hayen Copy Share Image
“Since the beginning of humankind, loved ones have put a hand on each other for support. Massage is our oldest form of… — Anthony William Copy Share Image
God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“A heritage that is only self-congratulating and masturbatory is not a heritage at all but rather insipid nostalgia. We cannot afford that;… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
Whoever would understand the character of Washington, in all its compass and grandeur, must learn it from his own writings, and from… — Jared Sparks Copy Share Image
“The curse that came before history has laid on us all a tendency to be weary of wonders. If we saw the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
