Book Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The reading of old books enables us to avoid becoming passive captives of the Spirit of the Age by keeping “the clean sea breeze…

— Alister E. McGrath

Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.

— Laila Lalami

“But while we are confined to books, though the most select and classic, and read only particular written languages, which are themselves but dialects…

— Anonymous

“Someday when we get around to writing a genealogy of our failures, inadequacies, and disappointments, an important place in such a study will be…

— Boris Gunjević

“But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?" "Yes, I am fond of history." "I wish I were too. I…

— Jane Austen

“Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and…

— Milan Kundera

“What is the purpose of history? It seeds only hate. All the history books should be burnt, so that we are no longer the…

— Claire North

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Now these ashes have grown cold, we open the old book. These oil-stained pages recount the tales of the Fallen, a frayed empire, words…

— Steven Erikson

“History shall never fade from sight.”

— Anonymous

“Sometimes I feel I don't want to know anything more about [history] than I know already. [...] Because what's the use of learning that…

— Thomas Hardy

“Words, I’ve come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without…

— Alena Graedon