Quotes About Perception

It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

History breaks down into images, not into stories.

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

Today's headlines and history's judgement are not the same.

All history is a lie!

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a past in which nothing smells.

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

When we read history we find that in all ages people have thought, this is the dark age.

The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.

Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -

...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.