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There lived great souls in the history of the world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for "The
— Edward Gibbon
You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.
— Richard Dawkins
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.
— R. Curtis Venture
Today is the beginning of new history.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
— Robert Darnton
History without politics descends to mere Literature.
— John Robert Seeley
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
— Carlos Fuentes
I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal.
— Ralph Webster
Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To study history is to study literature.
— Robert Aris Willmott
There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.
— Keri Russell
Life will be empty without great stories to read.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple.
— Ralph Webster
Life consists of books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.
— Pete Hamill
The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die.
— Saul Williams
Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.
— Germaine Greer
Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.
— C.V. Wedgwood
Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
History is scholarship. It is also art, and it is literature.
— Stephen J. Pyne
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
— Gilbert Murray
A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.
— Julien Gracq
Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.
— David O. McKay
What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history. (In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III') — Paul Murray Kendall
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
— Barbara Tuchman
I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls.
— Siri Hustvedt
The wisdom of our ancestors is immortal.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
How would you document the history of today?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
Seek to know the history of the sacred souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every soul that existed on earth is part of earth human history.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A fortress built long ago,Walls made timeless by historic glory.
The small girl in the boat slows,
To listen to its story. — Rachel Lewis
In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.
— Leopold Von Ranke
Ancient literature is a rich history.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.
— Elliot Ackerman
We travel to ancient times by reading history books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.
— Michel Foucault
If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.
— Richard Ellmann
Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.
— Heinrich Heine
We are only writing the history of our time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.
— Kurt Vonnegut
History must be documented; every moment is a sacred history.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
— John Henry Newman
Where do the wheels of history lead? How can you be so sure that the wheels of history won't get bogged down in blood and marrow again?
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned.
— Joseph Bottum
I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.
— Douglas Brinkley
The Bible is the greatest literature of all times.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I think literature reveals more about us than history does.
— Susan Meissner
History is a branch of mathematics. So is literature. Economics is a branch of religion.
— Matt Haig
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
— David O. McKay
Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Literature is the history of the soul.
— Barry Hannah
Sadly, we have confused biblical literature with history, and turned prophecy into biography.
— Eli Of Kittim
As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.
— Debbie Allen
History will be erased in the universal purgatory.
— Dejan Stojanovic
History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain.
— Peter Esterhazy
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
— Andrew Bird
Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.
— Richard Flanagan
When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.
— Germaine Greer
Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.
— Germaine Greer
