Historical Investigation Quotes

#1. Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

George Santayana

#2. Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.

Bill Vaughan

#3. In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.

Samuel Johnson

#4. I felt connected with Madonna from a very young age. I think I share a lot of qualities from her personality. I really respect her.

Marina And The Diamonds

#5. Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them

Michael Caine

#6. There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#7. These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#8. Mystics throughout the world have spoken of the inner experience of unity with the Self, a reality defined in our language by the Sanskrit term yoga, meaning union, and the word "religion", which comes from the Latin religare, meaning to bind or link.

Gwenael Verez

#9. In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.

Lucia Puenzo

#10. To our hearts revealed
As dreams flow through
No distance exists at all
Between we two

Ron Bishop

#11. Men with the highest dairy intakes had approximately double the risk of total prostate cancer,

T. Colin Campbell

#12. I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.

Hal Sparks

#13. I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.

Peter Carey

#14. Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

John Arlott

#15. Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Eknath Easwaran

#16. But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.

Walter Dean Myers