A Quote by Thomas Carlyle

History, a distillation of rumour.

Thomas Carlyle

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History Distillation

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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish - Philosopher
December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881

History is the distillation of rumour.

Thomas Carlyle

Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will.

Sylvia Earle

History: A distillation of rumor.

Thomas Carlyle

People are telling me I might be going back to MotoGP, but a rumour is a rumour.

Casey Stoner

There's a rumour going around that states cannot go bankrupt. This rumour is not true.

Angela Merkel

Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil.

Rem Koolhaas

You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.

Werner Herzog

As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.

Nick Denton

'Malice' wasn't about horror to start with but an underground comic driven by the power of rumour. However, as nothing fuels a rumour like fear, I decided that it had to be a frightening comic.

Chris Wooding

Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the orderly classifications of the taxonomist.