Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Anton Wilson

[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.'

Sarah Sutton

I like the stories with the historical themes.

Walter Kaufmann

Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.

Voltaire

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

Voltaire

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

William Ernest Hocking

However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,--i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.

Walter Scott

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

Witold Walczak

The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.

Wes Craven

A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

Wendell Willkie

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

Vladimir Lenin

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Walter Benjamin

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness

Rudolf Otto

That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable.

Joseph Boyden

Fascinating, often hilarious, always devastatingly truthful, The Inconvenient Indian is destined to become a classic of historical narrative. For those who wish to better understand Native peoples, it is a must read. For those who don't wish to understand, it is even more so.

Joss Whedon

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

Terence McKenna

History is rooted in the future

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

Leslie Fiedler

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

Sandra Cisneros

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

Samuel Johnson

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

Samuel Johnson

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Samuel Johnson

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

Ronald Reagan

In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.

Ron Paul

This much is true: you have been lied to.

Ron Paul

The Federal Reserve System is nothing more than legalized counterfeit.

Sharon Kay Penman

Abigail Adams could become my favorite historical sleuth.

Thomas Carlyle

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

Tony Kushner

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

Steven Biko

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Raymond Queneau

All societies are historical.

Raymond Queneau

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

Rick Perlstein

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

Thomas Nagel

The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical account becomes