Historical Insight Quotes

#1. Thucydides had grasped that vital historical insight that groups of people behave differently and have different motivations from individual human beings, and that they often behave far more discreditably than individuals. He

Diarmaid MacCulloch

#2. your days are like pages, the chapters unread. you have to keep turning your book has no end

John Steinbeck

#3. Shakespeare shoved into bed together words that scarcely knew each other before, had never even been introduced.

Melvyn Bragg

#4. The man who could not be discourteous to a ground-squirrel had sat in the courthouse abetting the cause of grubby-minded little men.

Harper Lee

#5. Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible ... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination, fracturing, diffusion, reproducing, as much as producing, creating, forcing, guiding, are necessary aspects of elaboration.

Edward Said

#6. Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

Howard Mumford Jones

#7. You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

Jonathan Carroll

#8. The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds - to say nothing of stars or galaxies - humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal

Carl Sagan

#9. Even if life as a whole is meaningless, perhaps that's nothing to worry about. Perhaps we can recognise it and just go on as before.

Thomas Nagel

#10. I shared this insight with some other boat owners, and they all agreed that, definitely, putting your boar into the water is asking for trouble. Most of them have had their boats sitting in their driveways long enough to be registered historical landmarks.

Dave Barry

#11. Barry Manilow was very special for me. We've had many collaborations since then and all have been equally rewarding and musical. I've learned so much from him. I like being a student around him; observing him in his environment.

Dave Koz

#12. when greeted, in case the ghostly specter

Jacqueline Winspear