Books Quote by Robert E. Lee

Truth is what works. Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as…

— William James

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

— Rita Dove

History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.

— Terry Eagleton

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its…

— Michael Kimmelman

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

“That's the way history works. People forget so easily. You start telling yourself a new version of the past, and after a while, it…

— Peter Tieryas

History works itself out in the living.

— Louise Erdrich

I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the…

— John Wayne

Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history.

— Stephen Dobyns

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

— Robert Walpole

“Listen," he said one afternoon in the library. "You have to read a book three times before you know it. The first time you…

— Sherman Alexie

Read about the history of magic.

— Andrew Mayne