History Quotes
Quotes about History
88 quotes
- “The lintel of more than one collapsed Venetian house on Crete bears the Latin motto ‘The world is nothing but smoke and ...” — Roger Crpwley
- “For it is better to drink a wholesome draught of truth from the humble vessel, than poison mixed with honey from a golde...” — Nennius
- “Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shif...” — Richard Killeen
- “What does our commitment to nonviolence mean as citizens of one of the most powerful and oppressive nations in recorded ...” — Mary Jo Bowman
- “Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big que...” — Andrew Bird
- “The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in q...” — Arnold Toynbee
- “As is always the case, events do not conform easily to the generalizations historians produce to try to make sense of th...” — Glenn Porter
- “Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is comm...” — Iveta Cherneva
- “The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a...” — B.h. Liddell Hart
- “A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his view...” — Ambeth R. Ocampo
- “Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fr...” — Christopher Hill
- “There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times ...” — John Robinson
- “When facing a decision that stands a 50/50 chance of being correct, the choice made will be wrong 80% of the time. Rick ...” — Frederick L. Coxen
- “A person may know things by somebody else's experience but a person will always learn things by his own personal experie...” — Raj Kiran Atagaraha
- “The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good st...” — Herbert Butterfield
- “The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death so are statues and inscriptions so is hist...” — Lew Wallace
- “Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a te...” — Mark E. Hyman
- “Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossib...” — Timothy Snyder
- “History is a succession of things that ought never to have happened, and the writing act is a kind of revenge against th...” — Breyten Breytenbach
- “As far back as history records people thinking, thinking peoplehave been befuddled by the mysteries of life and existenc...” — Lewis N. Roe
- “Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything...” — Richard Marius
- “The true lessons to be learned from Albert Speer are those that help us to recognize the Albert Speers living amongst us...” — Geetanjali Mukherjee
- “The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.” — Alexander Von Humboldt
- “...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.” — Brian Friel
- “Shame, as an emotion, has a core meaning, in relating individuals to wider social groups and norms -- real or imagined.” — Peter N. Stearns
- “Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it.” — Charles Carleton Coffin
- “Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.” — John Coleman
- “The past was a minefield about which few maps seemed to agree. And why should that surprise me? It's a big place.p. 30” — Danilo Kiš
- “A constant factor in human history is the need to protect oneself. Another factor is the urge to attack someone else.” — Stan Beckensall
- “He who does not know his past cannot make the best of his present and future, for it is from the past that we learn.” — Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan
- “there are between life partners sliding layers of history, tectonic plates of it shifting over the decades together.” — Helen Simpson
- “I am often appalled by those who make history, but inspired by those who do not.” -Morgana le Fey/Morgana Cornwall” — J.m. Briggs
- “If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.” — Herbert Butterfield
- “I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.” — Bartolomeo Vanzetti
- “In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.” — Bernard Levin
- “You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave.” — Leon Degrelle
- “My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.” — Andrew Bird
- “My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.” — Gil Asakawa
- “Don't deny the past. Remember everything. If you're bitter, be bitter. Cry it out! Scream! Denial is gangrene.” — Joy Kogawa
- “After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace.” — Archibald Wavell
- “Old, is it?" the man asks."Yes, very.""Pre-war, is it?""Yes," I say. "If by war you mean the Norman invasion.” — Garrett Carr
- “History remembers only the names of the conquerors. There are no pages devoted to the scruples of the losers.” — Manjul Bajaj
- “I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.” — Elizabeth Olsen
- “History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.” — Ricardo Salinas Pliego
- “If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.” — Augustus
- “Nostalgia is the intimate refuge of every man and every woman in a world seemingly gone mad.” — John Larkins
- “He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.” — Dave Malloy
- “It is better to give your path to a dog than to be bitten by him, contesting for the right.” — C.w. Abe Lincoln
- “It is a dangerous thing to have the same men in both the prophecy and the history business.” — Stacy Schiff
- “When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.” — George J. Mitchell