History Quote by R. Scott Bakker Download Open image ““Only madmen and historians, he said, believe their lies.”” — R. Scott Bakker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie. If he needs me to believe… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“or are the madmen those who insist on convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“he was a sincere man who believed in everything he said, even if it was a lie, which makes him not so different from… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“That man was a particular kind of liar. The kind that lies to himself about being a liar. Who is so corrupt, and deluded,… — ryan murphy brad falchuk Copy Share Image
“...lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“When a man possesses the innocence of a child, we call him a fool. When a child possesses the cunning of a man, we… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“I am a warrior of ages, Anasurimbor ... ages. I have dipped my nimil in a thousand hearts. I have ridden both against and… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods. The learned think the God… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated. — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy. — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“Sorweel: „Then how can we hope to resist him?“ Harweel: „With our swords and our shields. And when those fail us, with spit and… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“He struck his own fire, listened to the night wind roar through the trees. Sometimes, when he could see it, he stared at the… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“That hope is little more than the premonition of regret. This is the first lesson of history.” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“For all things there is a toll. We pay in breaths, and our purse is soon empty.” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
