Documents Quote by Aldo Leopold

Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

— Jonathan Swift

“All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact—yet the…

— Frank Herbert

“The ‘I’ that we confidently broadcast to the world is a fiction—a jerry-built container for the volatile unconscious elements that divide and confound us.…

— Robert W. Fuller

“My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone.”

— Kit Reed

“How we document ourselves speaks volumes about our ability to know ourselves and write our own histories, and we need more opportunities to do…

— Nico Lang

“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing…

— Anonymous

“For, as Professor Turner has pointed out, “history originated as myth” and becomes a “social memory” to which men can appeal, “knowing it will…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

Raised in a house filled with old books, I'm drawn to them: the dust jackets that call out a historical moment, the marbled boards,…

— Jacob Weisberg

But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.

— George H. W. Bush

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward…

— Karl Jaspers

“Only through the careful study of historical documents can we prevent the distortion of where we came from and who we are as a…

— Ben Carson