Animal Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calender. We are not so…

— Robert Ardrey

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us…

— Virginia Woolf

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

— Henry David Thoreau

Man in a word has no nature; what he has. ..is history.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“In other words, that works of history are mere collections of facts. It is fiction alone that can show us the true nature of…

— Daisaku Ikeda

Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calendar. We are not so…

— Robert Ardrey

“There is no room in History for conjecture. History is fact because it deals with facts, you’ll learn in time...' 'Fuck that, man. That’s…

— D.L. Christopher

“Historians have often felt that the discovery of facts (even true ones) is only a preliminary to a higher activity, that of understanding the…

— Oswyn Murray

“Facts that have been forges into history first appear as incoherent text scribbled on aged paper. Only as we examine the whole of that…

— Ron Mayes

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you believe that humans are animals, there can be no such thing as the history of humanity, only the lives of particular humans.…

— John Gray

“Of the works of this mind history is the record. Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days. Man is explicable by…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson