Jean Bodin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.
History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.
Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.
I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today!
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

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