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Historian: A broad-gauge gossip.
~great quotes in history by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
~inspirational sayings about History quotes by Alexis de Tocqeville, 1856
The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums.
~history quotes by Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up
There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used.... Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.
~famous quotes about Violence by Gil Bailie
Too many so-called historians are really 'hysterians'; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When their duties as citizens clash with their responsibilities as scholars, Clio frequently takes a back seat.
~history sayings by Thomas A. Bailey
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
~great quotes in history by Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death
The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
~inspirational sayings about Patriotism quotes by George Meredith, Beauchamp's Career
History is the discipline closest to life; and life is rarely free of contradictions.
~history quotes by Karl J. Weintraub, Visions of Culture
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species.
~famous quotes about History by Washington Irving, History of New York
Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.
~history sayings by Philip Wylie, Generation of Vipers
[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.
~great quotes in history by Jacques Barzun, Clio and the Doctors
History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.
~inspirational sayings about History quotes by Jacob Burckhardt
A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
~history quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life
[W]hat mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
~famous quotes about History by Thomas Carlyle
[H]istorians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous.
~history sayings by Robert Stinson
Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark, swollen buds, strip-tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora.
~great quotes in history by Ketzel Levine's talkingplants.com
I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series of Employments during that Space of Time. This kind of Self-Examination would give them a true State of themselves, and incline them to consider seriously what they are about. One Day would rectifie the Omissions of another, and make a Man weigh all those indifferent Actions, which, though they are easily forgotten, must certainly be accounted for.
~good sayings about Self-Discovery by Joseph Addison, 1712
[Poker is] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find outside an advertising agency.
~history quotes by Raymond Chandler
Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.
~motivational quotes about Parenting sayings by Gail Sheehy
What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes
~history sayings by Timothy Virkkala
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
~great quotes in history by Jean Anouilh
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
~good sayings about Bores by Gerald Brenan
Our bodies are our gardens - our wills are our gardeners.
~history quotes by William Shakespeare
Woman didn't get the short end of every stick. At least God gave us handheld massaging shower heads.
~motivational quotes about Women sayings by Rhann Morgan
Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
~history sayings by Wilson Mizner
Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.
~great quotes in history by W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
How good does a female athlete have to be before we just call her an athlete?
~good sayings about Feminism by Author Unknown
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
~history quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower
There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dreamThey are rightIt is the American dream
~motivational quotes about Patriotic sayings by Archibald MacLeish
Murphy was an optimist.
~history sayings by O'Toole's Commentary
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
~great quotes in history by Oscar Wilde
All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.
~good sayings about Reality by Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain
Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see.
~history quotes by George Berkeley
You have to learn to treat people as a resource......you have to ask not what do they cost, but what is the yield, what can they produce?
~motivational quotes about Business sayings by Peter F. Drucker
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
~history sayings by Jane Haddam
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