Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robby Krieger

Jim died in 1971, and the problem of trying to replace him was insurmountable at that time. But after 30 years or so goes by, it doesn't seem so insurmountable.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Joshua Simmons

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

Scott Stossel

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Angelina Jolie

Homework's hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, 'Okay.' And then I sit down and they say, 'It's math.' 'No! Not math! English, history, anything!'

David Christian

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history.

Seamus Heaney

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

Susan Cameron

The history of the tobacco industry is not a positive one.

Conrad Aiken

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Mason Cooley

Disillusionment is not truth.

Mason Cooley

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

Mason Cooley

Truth is a necessary phantom.

Mason Cooley

Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.

Margaret Oliphant

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

Michel de Montaigne

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.