Top 1200 Historical Knowledge Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

Denuclearization and the lasting peace on the Korean peninsula cannot be abandoned or delayed, as they are the historical assignment.

Kant ... stated that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge ... to make room for faith," but all he had "denied" was knowledge of things that are unknowable, and he had not made room for faith but for thought.

God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.

I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.

Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.

There is a reason to have an agency called the EPA, and it has served an historical purpose I believe is vital to this country.

For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy reads: 'Though goodness without knowledge . . . is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous. . . . Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind.'

The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.

After writing several chapter books, I found my true passion: historical fiction.

All the historical elements should feel organic to the story but not hammered down to serve a purpose.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.

Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

There is knowledge of God and the spiritual nature of man, as well as other types of reality..., that are not reducible to the world dealt with by the so-called "natural" sciences. The idea that knowledge - and, of course, reality - is limited to that world is the single most destructive idea on the stage of life today.

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

I'm absolutely loving Turin's old, historical-city vibe, with the narrow, cobbled streets.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.

I almost write to formula, because there's a historical beginning, then the plots get convoluted.

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts made by successive generations of men--the little bits of knowledge and experience carefully treasured up by them growing at length into a mighty pyramid.

Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.

Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that you contribute value for which customers are going to pay.

I see all mythology as one tradition, a way of disseminating knowledge that must come to us in code so that we can live sanely with it, since some forms of knowledge are too dark, or too complex, to be plainly spoken. And so we have these weird (and also sometimes entertaining and surprising and heartening) tales that belong to all of us.

I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions.

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and thereby coming to know it critically, but in the task of re-creating that knowledge. As they attain this knowledge of reality through common reflection and action, they discover themselves as its permanent re-creators.

Humility is essential to the acquiring of spiritual knowledge. To be humble is to be teachable. Humility permits you to be tutored by the Spirit and to be taught from sources inspired by the Lord, such as the scriptures. The seeds of personal growth and understanding germinate and flourish in the fertile soil of humility. Their fruit is spiritual knowledge to guide you here and hereafter.

Jesus regularly visualized the success of his efforts ... 'I always do what pleases God.' ... Was this conceit? Or was it enlightened creativity and self-knowledge? ...Jesus was full of self-knowledge and self-love. His 'I am' statements were what he became.

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

We view the protection of Jewish life as a mission. We have a historical responsibility, and this is our duty as a republic.

What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.

... All that we may ever hope to establish in historical research are facts and conditions but never causes.

Justice in holdings is historical; it depends upon what actually has happened. We shall return to this point later.

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

The beauty of the unexpected and unknown, and it's certainly very tantalizing for me as an actor. Other actors can't deal with that; they want to know, but then they make choices and decisions with that knowledge because that knowledge gives them forethought, and they can think about how they want to play something that takes away spontaneity of what they could be doing.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

It is important to gain knowledge, yes, but any advantage we will have in the eternal life to come will be a knowledge, I am sure, of those saving principles upon which our eternal life will depend.

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

[We need] to keep immigration levels measured by population share within historical norms.

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

People think you go to doctors for their knowledge. You don't go to doctors for their knowledge. You go to doctors for their judgment, their instinct, what to do, how to make the right call.

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.

It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.

No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; – for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret.

The most precious gift God gave humans is reason. Its best use is the search for knowledge. To know the human environment, to know the earth and galaxies, is to know God. Knowledge (science) is the best form of prayer.

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.

Previously, I was in a historical drama so I'm happy to show my romantic act, even though it's short.