- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
History Quotes
Personal history and the record we leave.
Quotes about "history" here move between the personal and the public — early museum visits that shaped a scientific mindset, and a family history full of preachers and former priests. For enduring, timeless sayings, see Long quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be.
- Bad Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leave history to historians.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
- Details
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
- Animals
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up reading thrillers, science fiction, fantasy - you name it - and one day I asked myself if there was a reason why a fear of spiders was so common. Was there something buried deep in our evolutionary history that made being scared of spiders a survival instinct?
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
- Nov 07, 2020