Books Quote by D. B. Weiss

There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.

— Jacob Burckhardt

I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of…

— Richard Cobden

“The New Testament was not written by historians with the critical spirit of a Thucydides or a Polybius, but by men moved by the…

— Marvin Perry

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

— Joanne Harris

Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the…

— Adam Hamilton

I read the entire Old Testament and New Testament.

— Mike Leach

Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.

— Magnus Carlsen

Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from looking at…

— Julian Jaynes

All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and…

— Anne Rice

“While many Greeks (although not Thucydides) thought that history moved in circles, repeating itself infinitely, the Jewish idea that each event was singular and…

— Norman F. Cantor

At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't…

— Alison Bechdel

I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the…

— Charles Darwin