Acquaintance Quote by Terry Eagleton

To study history is to study literature.

— Robert Aris Willmott

The arts are what humanize science and history.

— Danny K. Davis

My intention is to create opportunities for reflections and meditations on history.

— Shimon Attie

The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and…

— Edgar Alwin Payne

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

— Kristen Wiig

I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval architecture, in…

— John Adams

I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it…

— Henry Steele Commager

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

— Joseph Conrad

I'm not an academic philosopher, and don't agree with the way the universities approach the subject. I'm a philosopher only in the very loose…

— Alain de Botton

Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too…

— Walter Savage Landor