Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Chinua Achebe

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

Dean Acheson

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

David Hilbert

Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does Poincaré, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs.

David Hume

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

David Hume

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Antony Beevor

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

Antonin Artaud

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

Edith Wharton

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

Paul Clarke

The outcome helps us fulfill our duty of providing maximum returns on our investments to fund the work of the church.

Li Zhaoxing

The position of the U.N. ... must be strengthened so that it can perform its duty of safeguarding peace in a more effective way,

Charles Buxton

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

Kevin Chambers

There is no process for regular review of local issuing authorities. If someone just stops performing that duty, we'd have no way of knowing that.

Benjamin Franklin

Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.

Kathleen Ham

Thirty years ago I thought I would never put myself through this again. But I felt I had a duty to right the wrong.

Tipu Sultan

Footwear market of Thailand is too little and no exporter will go there to use the duty-free facility.

Atharva Veda

It is the duty of the husband to earn money and fulfil the needs of his wife. It is also his duty to keep her happy and satisfied. He should protect her and fulfill all her demands.

David Burnett

I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.

Niall Ferguson

The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.

Kenneth Baker

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.

Paul Johnson

What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or meningitis makes sense.

Hassan Rouhani

I've said before that I am not a historian and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust, it is the historians that should reflect on it.

Lee Benson

History never repeats itself, historians do.

Rick Perlstein

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

George W. Bush

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

Julian Barnes

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.