A Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.
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The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother.
There has always been interest in certain phases and aspects of history - military history is a perennial bestseller, the Civil War, that sort of thing. But I think that there is a lot of interest in historical biography and what's generally called narrative history: history as story-telling.
Good history is good story-telling. And good story-telling demands empathy; it requires understanding different actors, differing motivations, competing goals.
The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A story is a narrative on an event or series of events, just like history.
The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.
Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
I believe there's no such thing as history; there's only historians, and in English, we've got this word 'his'tory, but what about her story? So that, in the end, the history of the world would be a history of every single one of its members, but of course, you could never get to grips with that.
The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.
You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.
All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing: it's our goddamned story!
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.
Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.
To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story we give to someone we love.
For centuries you have been taught that love-sponsored action arises out of the choice to be, do, and have whatever produces the highest good for another. Yet I tell you this: the highest choice is that which produces the highest good for you.
The history in our country speaks to our highest values of people who did not accept things as they are and go along with them. They resisted, they refused to accept the world as it is, they demanded it to be a better reflection of their highest dreams and highest aspirations.
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