Behinds Quote by Iris Origo

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record…

— Samuel Smiles

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

— Thomas Carlyle

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is not, at the same time,…

— Anonymous

The creative person should have no other biography than his works.

— B. Traven

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

— Carter G. Woodson

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of…

— Janet Malcolm

To avoid a future of war, crime, and bankruptcy, the individual must begin to plan his own destiny, and the best source for the…

— Manly Hall

As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way,…

— Henry Fielding

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

— V. S. Naipaul