Quotes About Perspective

l'histoire est connaissance mutilée. Un historien ne dit pas ce qu'a été..., mais ce qu'il est encore possible d'en savoir.

La connaissance historique est taillée sur le patron de documents mutilés.

Pour moi comme pour plusieurs de mes condisciples, la relation du maître et du disciple était chose morte ; ne serait-ce que parce que nous avions d'autres idées que nos maîtres, qui n'avaient que leurs conceptions scientifiques d'avant-guerre ; nous étions sûrs de notre supériorité sur la génération précédente (ce qui vaut mieux que de gémir sur la décadence et de maudire son époque [...]).

There's more to life than movies.

Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?

You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.

The truth is overrated.

Recognise the difference between having and living.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

For me the mark of a great History teacher is the ability to take students to places outside the classroom while staying in the classroom.

I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.

Not bad. Human. You've really got to stop seeing things as all bad or all good. And you've got to learn that just because someone tells you something that you don't want to hear, doesn't mean that person's out to get you.

Everyday you wake up on the right side of the dirt is a good one.

You know, I am so sick of cuttin' on my television and everyone on it is obsessed with livin' forever. Well, I have a news flash: Ain't none of us gettin' out of her alive.

There was a siege going on: it had been going on for a long time, but the besieged themselves were the last to take it seriously.

The truth about people had not much to do with what they said about themselves, or what others said about them.

can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?

Wells-Barnett's experience with the ways that lynching victims were criminalized, and her progressive belief in the ability of persons to change for the better, gave her another perspective.

Life meant reducing expectations and making-do with what one had. What was the point of boo-hooing, as she saw it, when "no man is a prince, except in the imagination"? It was the same thing Marcy had said: "No one is as good as you think they are.

I've never travelled," I told her. "Oh, you absolutely should," she insisted, "if only so that you can come home and really see it for what it is. That's my favourite part.