Famous quotes containing the words samuel, eliot, scholar and/or historian:
“Hannah was praying silently; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard; therefore Eli thought she was drunk.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 1:13.
“... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)
“Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not. But one veil hangs over past, present, and future, and it is the province of the historian to find out, not what was, but what is. Where a battle has been fought, you will find nothing but the bones of men and beasts; where a battle is being fought, there are hearts beating.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)