Histories Quotes

153 Histories quotes by 143 unique authors

I was thinking about framing, and how so much of what we think about our lives and our personal histories revolves around how we frame… — Kiersten White
There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. — Karl Popper
There is no history, only histories. — Karl Popper
There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by… — Antony Gormley
Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal. — Jack Horner
The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and… — Bayard Taylor
In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults. — Charles J. Shields
I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives,… — Hannah Kent
The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The… — Virginia Postrel
As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of… — Ira Sachs
I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody knew anything about… — Jane Goodall
New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures. — Jonathan Dee
We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them. — Lewis B. Smedes
Belief in liberal freedom and democracy is always belief in it in a particular place, in a national home with histories that only those who… — Michael Ignatieff
Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners, no matter what… — Hassanal Bolkiah
Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives. — Hugh Mackay
Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where… — Mitch Landrieu
My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11,… — David Remnick
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon
Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce --… — Thomas Moore
I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about… — Joe Klein
I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally… — Bill Bryson
Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social — William Bolitho
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise. — Francis Bacon Sr
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write — Michel De Montaigne

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