Believe Quote by Michael Joseph Oakeshott Download Open image “History is what the evidence compels us to believe.” — Michael Joseph Oakeshott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Believe Evidence Faith History Inspirational
History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories;… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
History seems not so much a record of past events, more a catalogue of preferred beliefs expounded by people who have a vested interest. — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true. — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen to the… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
It is certain that most who concentrate upon achievement miss life. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
To be conservative…is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice have brought… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind the scenes. He's going… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
I can't believe that I'm sitting in meetings with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Annette Bening. I want to take on that responsibility to… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
There is no such word as item girl in the dictionary. People have created this word and I don't believe that I am an… — Shefali Zariwala Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I don't really like too much credit. I know nobody's going to believe this, but I'd rather be able to score goals and nobody… — Bradley Wright-Phillips Copy Share Image
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
That's why I don't generally talk about endorsements because I don't believe we have to tell people who to vote for. — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
