Secret Historian Quotes

#1. George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or of deep dazzling darkness, where he and the others we've lost reside, unscathed, forever accessible - to have tea with, to talk nonsense with, to reinvent the world with

Justin Spring

#2. ... those were the subjects that Barber dealt with as a historian, and no matter how scrupulous and profession he was in treating them, there was always a personal motive behind his work, a secret conviction that he was somehow digging into the mysteries of his own life.

Paul Auster

#3. Know well what holds you back, and what moves you forward

Gautama Buddha

#4. Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California.

Ronald Reagan

#5. The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

Paul E. Gray

#6. In America the scale of medical embezzlement is extraordinary. According to Donald Berwick, the ex-boss of Medicare and Medicaid (the public health schemes for the old and poor), America lost between $82 billion and $272 billion in 2011 to medical fraud and abuse.

Anonymous

#7. It's a special form of humiliation, being judged by the things you can't change.

Anonymous

#8. There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

Henry David Thoreau