Cynical Quote by Lynn Townsend White, Jr Download Open image “The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.” — Lynn Townsend White, Jr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cynical Hands Historian History Past Time
There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took. — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened. — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability. — Lynn Townsend White, Jr Copy Share Image
We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr Copy Share Image
More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr Copy Share Image
If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation.… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr Copy Share Image
Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr Copy Share Image
Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our ecologic crisis… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr Copy Share Image
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much. — Andre Siegfried Copy Share Image
I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be. — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy. — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business. — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
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