History Quote by Tom Holland

“Whenever he was unclear about some idea or emotion, uncertain in his perception of someone or vague about a memory, he sat to his…

— James Carlos Blake

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“Then his heart and imagination were more in the ascendency. Now he had begun to admire the intellectual qualities of that literature more, and…

— George MacDonald

“[T]he more man accepts his limitations, the better is he enabled to know things truly.”

— R.J. Rushdoony

“As long as he followed the fixed definition of obscure words such as spirit, will, freedom, essence, purposely letting himself go into the snare…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It may indeed be said that the word is never a more splendid mystery than when it travels in a man's mind from thought…

— Victor Hugo

“The words were before him, and yet I thought he wasn't reading them from the paper, but from the pages of his memory, from…

— Diana Gabaldon

“It was funny the way memory obliged the heart. His happy recollections were always afloat in his soupy subconscious where so many of his…

— Nanci Kincaid

“His Word is not mere pages. It is a spirit that animates His words to touch a soul in need of restoration.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thought is impossible.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Text of bliss: the text that imposes a state of loss, the text that discomforts (perhaps to the point of a certain boredom), unsettles…

— Roland Barthes

“Were a man to be totally deprived of memory, he would be incapable of forming any just opinion; everything about him would seem a…

— Thomas Paine