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  • So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : A. B. Yehoshua Quotes , Truth Quotes , Past Quotes
  • Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly - not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Past Quotes , Goal Quotes
  • Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms appears, to add his mite of peace and comfort to my stock; and whenever the fire within me shall grow cold, to light my path upon this earth no more, I pray that it may be at such an hour as this, and when I love the world as well as I do now.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Past Quotes
  • If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid it. It will either demand that past promises are broken, or it will not work, or it will not pay taxes, or the most talented people will leave. Socialist governments which have tried to tax 'till the pips squeak' have ample experience of that.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Mean Quotes , Past Quotes