History Quote by Paul Bloom

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native…

— Beau Bridges

“All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a…

— William Dean Howells

“Legends and folklores are the memories of ancient civilizations.”

— ninotaziz

“Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out…

— Tahir Shah

“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods,…

— Ronald Wright

“The paradox of anthropology: to see something, you had to be outside of it, but when you were outside of it, you couldn't see…

— Paul La Farge

“That every civilization emerges out of interactions with others, but nevertheless creates its own miracle, was not yet recognized by either European or Indian…

— Romila Thapar

The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the…

— George Steiner

We used to go to movies to see stories about ourselves. It would transport us to new worlds and we'd see aspects of ourselves…

— Travis Knight

“The Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, acclaimed as the most brilliant and perceptive reporter of his time, writes in "Travels with Herodotus" that with every…

— Mateo Cabello

“Blindness to larger contexts is a constitutional defect of human thinking imposed by the painful necessity of being able to concentrate on only one…

— Hugh Nibley

To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions and standards…

— H. P. Lovecraft