Historical Facts

Famous quotes containing the words historical and/or facts:

    Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.
    Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

    Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)