"A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials which he finds, and to refrain from supplying deficiencies by additions of his own. He must be a profound and ingenious reasoner; yet he must possess sufficient self-command to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Powerful Quotes #Self Quotes #Profound Quotes

“The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect â€¦[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by publications using it, has more influence on public thinking than any other branch of photography.”
“Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!"”
“I write the first sentence and trust in God for the next.”
“The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.”
“History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.”

Source : Ernst Troeltsch (2006). “Christian thought, its history and application”, Walter de Gruyter
“Never knew a man not to be improved by a dog.”
“Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.”

Source : "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.
“The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.”

Source : "The Edge of Dreaming". PBS Live Chat, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.

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