#history

Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team. ↗

— Mark E. Hyman

#basketball #basketball player #been #best #history

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#facing #history #life #me #poetry

There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century. ↗

— Robert Nelson

#art #art history #basically #century #early

Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history? ↗

— Gary North

#christ #glory #history #jesus #jesus christ

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. ↗

— Henry Adams

#am #anyone #faith #him #history

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. ↗

— George Orwell

#age

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#history #life #meaning #memory #philosophy

This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton's famous phrase. Great breakthroughs are closer to what happens in a flood plain: a dozen separate tributaries converge, and the rising waters lift the genius high enough that he or she can see around the conceptual obstructions of the age. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#age

A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#age

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle. ↗

— Simon Schama

#humor #waffle #age