My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the… — Warren Mundine Copy Share Image
On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as… — David Gross Copy Share Image
We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction… — Saul David Copy Share Image
“a better reading of history must bring home the truth that the basic factor in human affairs is not politics, but race.” — T. Lothrop Stoddard Copy Share Image
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history… — Usher Copy Share Image
Being a middle-class family back in the 1970s meant we only had one TV... and it wasn't in your room... so when… — Rick Harrison Copy Share Image
I was not a great student at the University of Chicago. I think that is - the record will bare me out.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There are several sources for my appreciation of pastors and the way they are described in this book. One of them is… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
But really, for me, I tried to find first-person accounts. I tried to read stories from men and women who had survived… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
The slave narratives, there is a wealth of research there, because you are hearing stories from the first person account, and that's… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
Although age has its normal limits, it may be extended by two things-the study of history and by travel. Reading history broadens… — Mahmud Tarzi Copy Share Image
The title of my book is 'American Histories,' plural. And as far as I'm concerned, my reading of history is it is… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I am not a historian, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Historians usually focus their attention on the past of countries that still exist, writing hundreds and thousands of books on British history,… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
“He sounded flustered. Juliette watched him busy about the stove, his movements jerky and manic, and realized she was the one cloistered… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“Our life is like a journey…’ – and so the journey seems to me less an adventure and a foray into unusual… — Annemarie Schwarzenbach Copy Share Image
“Life of a software engineer sucks big time during project release. Every single team member contribution is very important. At times, we… — Saravana Kumar Murugan Copy Share Image
I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air… — Shakira Copy Share Image
When I was growing up reading history books as a young student, it seemed all wars had a winner. Yet in today's… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
“One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".” — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history… — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East,… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history. — David Chang Copy Share Image
“It is my prejudice against everything that turns out well that has given me a taste for reading history.” — E. M. Cioran Copy Share Image
More and more I'm finding that I'm reading history, I'm reading biography, I'm reading autobiography for a sense of people who've been… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
When I went to high school - that's about as far as I got - reading my U.S. history textbook, well, I… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
“Reading history is good for all of us. If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
