710 Quotes About Historical

I like mythology - anything historical.

Probably, if we looked at Da Vinci or Michelangelo with care, we'd see a historical particularity that the work is not treated as having. It's certainly true of Shakespeare.

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

We're at the stage of the market where it seems to be detaching from historical fundamentals.

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.

There still is an interest. ... It's still the world's largest single-event bonspiel by far. It's still a unique historical event, and we'd like to maintain that.

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army