The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men.

To get answers of life, ask questions

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

The universe is not particularly concerned with you.

Some women want the strong silent type, so they can tell him to shut up and rearrange the furniture.

Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water.

It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.

Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater