History Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“But while we are confined to books, though the most select and classic, and read only particular written languages, which are themselves but dialects…

— Anonymous

“The history of man is a must read poetry.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education.…

— J.D. Salinger

“Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of custom and trade and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta

“More than anyone I’d ever met, he seemed to participate in life as if it were art, and to practice a studied, careful carefreeness.…

— Joshua Foer

“For what was civilization but the intellect’s ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely…

— Amor Towles

“Each life contains as much meaning as all of history.”

— Catherine Chung

“Our historical pursuits should seek meaning as well as understanding, wisdom as well as knowledge. They should center on two pivotal questions: What can…

— Robert Tracy McKenzie

“Any poet may find the most profound themes scattered along the path. Observation, if passionate, however, might debauch the deepest of themes.”

— Alok Mishra

“History was like looking into others’ lives, learning how they lived, what they did, how they thought, and even how they loved.”

— Max Vos

“In the last stage of civilization, Poetry, Religion, and Philosophy will be one.”

— Thoreau