Top 1200 Historical Truth Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

The Holocaust is as real a historical event as World War II itself and not to be challenged.

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.

Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world.

Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.

Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.

I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.

In my world, historical revenue is the least interesting thing to consider in an acquisition strategy.

Most people don't care much about enlightenment and the truth. They'd rather watch the Home Shopping Network, and maybe that's another kind of truth.

The true church is not made of creeds and forms, nor is it contained in walls of wood and stone; the heart of man is its temple and the Spirit of truth is the one guide into all Truth. When men learn to turn within to the Spirit of truth, who is in each one for his light and inspiration, the differences between the churches of man will be eliminated, and the one church will be recognized.

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair.

Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself.

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

I have been in the industry for five years and would love to play a historical character.

There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.

Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there's a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.

What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents.

Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.

I want to bring forth the historical significance of Sreerampur and turn it into a tourism hub.

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event.

Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False.

Me at parties: 'Like, do you want to know the historical context of the prophet Jeremiah?'

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

The doctrine of the Trinity...is truth for the heart. The fact that it can not be satisfactorily explained, instead of being against it, is in its favor. Such a truth had to be revealed; no one could imagine it.

The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.

When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.

Absolute knowledge is only possible when you know the Absolute Truth and to have the Absolute Truth you have to go to the Absolute Being within you which is your Spirit. So, it gives you the truth, it gives you the collective consciousness. The main thing is that you become extremely peaceful personality, you become peace, you emit peace.

Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

I think a lot of times, the historical piece is often a way to comment on the present.

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

As far as reading is concerned, I like historical and political books and works of art.

There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it.

For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.

As reporters, we not only deliver the news of the day. We must also defend the truth. And just because we are pro-truth doesn't mean we are anti-Trump.

You can tell the truth, but sometimes you can't always be in your face with it. I found a way to tell the truth and put it in a nice, neat package for people to receive it. A lot of times, you have to put it in a nice, neat box with a bow tie, and when they open it, it's the truth. I think people respect that.

I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure — that's a verifiable fact.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

Finding that core of truth within yourself... That truth that knows and trusts that All Is Well, and that chooses Love... Is the greatest spiritual attainment you can ever make.