Quotes of: Black-history Keyword

I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me.

Herb Ritts

Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.

Another Faust

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond, The. Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific.

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

…growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination

The History of Mr. Polly

In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so.

The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

The History of Us

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

The Inner Circle

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history...

The Inner Circle

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).

A Short History of Nearly Everything

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.

Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

A Natural History of the Senses

As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past