Top 100 History Is Quotes
#1. NoH8 on the Hill, NoH8 anywhere. No American, regardless of who they love, should be denied equal protection under the law. History is on our side and our march towards justice will prevail.
Xavier Becerra
#2. Part of history is tracing artifacts and looking at patterns.
A.G. Riddle
#4. There is no room in History for conjecture. History is fact because it deals with facts, you'll learn in time ... '
'Fuck that, man. That's like saying botany is a lettuce because it deals with lettuces.
D.L. Christopher
#6. The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#7. History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.
Antoine Rivarol
#8. History is the same thing over and over again.
Woody Allen
#9. If history is written by the victors, conspiracy theory is typically written by the losers, and there were few greater losers in the revolution than the French church and especially the Jesuits.
Mike Jay
#10. The problem is that history is not a dialectic progression but a biome, a swamp where ideas chase each other around and wallow and where drupelets of their larvae cluster and then hatch to devour siblings.
Eugene Lim
#12. History is a ghost story. My own childhood has passed into history, and the ghosts I find there are the ghosts of Heroes and dragons and Berserks and witches, and it has become fashionable not to believe in these things anymore. But I believe, for I was there.
Cressida Cowell
#13. All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
Edmund Burke
#15. Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.
George Bernard Shaw
#16. History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
George Santayana
#17. Judaism says, "The Messiah is going to come, and that's the end of history"; Christianity says, "The Messiah is going to come back, and that's the end of history"; Islam says, "The Messiah came; history is irrelevant." One
Stewart Brand
#20. In third grade, I had to an oral report on the state of Oregon. I brought up Big Foot sightings, and I remember there was an argument about whether or not Big Foot was valid history. Ever since then I've been thinking about how subjective history is.
Sufjan Stevens
#21. History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
#22. Art history is a global version of that old children's game Chinese whispers.
Grayson Perry
#23. History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.
Wilbur Smith
#24. History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.
Hilary Mantel
#25. History is, of course, a made thing. It does not exist by itself in anything like a recognizable form.
Jay Parini
#26. History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.
from Past Present and Future are One
Aberjhani
#27. history is one sided, none of the stories are wholly true. We only hear the stories the victor wants told. The remaining stories, the plights, justifications and heroics of the losers are gone with time. Ours is such a history. We are stronger, yet rarely
H.K. Savage
#28. History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.
Washington Irving
#29. History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.
Michelle Sagara West
#30. History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to what is being conserved.
Humberto Maturana
#31. The special and salutary benefit of the study of history is to behold evidence of every sort of behavior set forth as on a splendid memorial; from it you may select for yourself and for your country what to emulate, from it what to avoid, whether basely begun or basely concluded.
Livy
#32. A nation which fails to adequately remember salient points of
its own history, is like a person with Alzheimer's. And that can be a
social disease of a most destructive nature.
S.M. Sigerson
#33. The greatest owner in professional sports history is Eddie DeBartolo.
Ronnie Lott
#34. History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it's never enough. You also must run.
Frank Herbert
#35. The only thing that can be expected from the next US president is more war, more murder, and more oppression of the gullible American people. People as uninformed and as gullible as Americans have no future. Americans are a dead people that history is about to run over.
Paul Craig Roberts
#36. The progress of history is to take the impossible and turn it into the possible.
Ralph Nader
#37. History is not made by great dreams, but by the petty wants of all respectable, moderately thievish and selfish people, that is, of everyone. All our ideas, loves, plans, heroic ideals, all these lofty things are worthless.
Karel Capek
#38. I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it.
Peter Carey
#39. It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
Cormac McCarthy
#40. The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
Shimon Peres
#41. A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.
Steven Biko
#44. The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
Robert Penn Warren
#45. Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.
James D'arcy
#46. And I found in my study that history is cyclic, and everywhere in the world you find this pattern in ancient times: that as a culture begins to decline, you have an efflorescence of transgender phenomena. That is a symptom of cultural collapse.
Camille Paglia
#47. There's no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help others.
Demi Lovato
#48. The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.
Learned Hand
#49. A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.
George Schaller
#50. History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living
Lawrence Durrell
#51. History is not coherent; moreover, the politics of coherence tend to drive history in the least tolerable directions.
Joshua Clover
#52. History is personal, Gwen understands that now. All you are seeing is what's before you, the rest is guesswork.
Alice Hoffman
#53. Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.
Richard M. Nixon
#54. A nation's preoccupation with history is not infrequently an effort to obtain a passport for the future. Often it is a forged passport.
Eric Hoffer
#55. in its deepest mystery, all of salvation history is in fact a divine love story between Creator and creature, between God and Israel, a story that comes to its climax on the bloody wood of a Roman cross.
Brant Pitre
#56. To be an American is not ... a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea
and history is the image of that idea.
Robert Penn Warren
#57. History as well as life itself is complicated
neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
Jared Diamond
#58. History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
Idries Shah
#59. History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.
Johann Gustav Droysen
#60. I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.
Oprah Winfrey
#61. History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.
Louis Fischer
#62. The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same in every field of knowledge. Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.
Robert Wilson Lynd
#63. My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.
Daniel Goldstein
#64. Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus.
You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.
Will Durant
#65. History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction.
A.E. Samaan
#66. The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.
Mark Teixeira
#67. A man without any history is like a tree without roots
Malcolm X
#69. History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.
Terence McKenna
#70. History ... is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake.
James Joyce
#71. To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.
Helen Dunmore
#72. We must consider how very little history there is
I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true; but all the coloring, all the philosophy, of history is conjecture.
Samuel Johnson
#73. The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words, every time you perform an experiment in science or in medicine, what you're actually doing is you're answering someone, answering a question raised by someone in the past.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#74. History is always a grand fantasy ... To reconstruct is to invent.
Eca De Queiros
#75. Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.
Peter Kreeft
#76. History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
Voltaire
#78. Stay with & live your dreams, for these trail blazers did and history is telling their stories in golden, glossy and embossed shining foils
Ikechukwu Joseph
#79. [History is] the very servant of the servants of God, the drudge of all the drudges.
Herbert Butterfield
#80. The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.
James W. Loewen
#81. For history is a pattern Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel History is now and England.
T. S. Eliot
#82. History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.
Norman O. Brown
#83. The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
Ben Bernanke
#85. History is thorough, and passes through many phases when it bears an old figure to the grave. The last phase of a world historical figure is its comedy.
Karl Marx
#86. Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.
Joe Torre
#87. ... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!
E.A. Bucchianeri
#88. The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion.
Agatha Christie
#89. History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper.
Ridley Scott
#90. More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
John Barth
#91. History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
Stephen Spender
#92. History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.
Edmund Snow Carpenter
#93. The classic formulation of the materialist conception of history is that of the Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, written in 1859.
Anonymous
#94. History is contemporary. Your understanding of history confirms what you think of the present. It's not neutral. I would be very surprised if people with a different view of the present, don't take issue with my view of the past. I just hope that people deal with the content of the film.
Ken Loach
#97. History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.
George Carlin
#98. Nowadays people think that history is what was on TV last night.
Michael Dibdin
#99. it is important to stress that history is always constructed, not absolute or unchallangeable. Histories are stories about the past, and reconstructing the past ill involve elements of mythologising from the cultural, political and theoretical stances of both the historian and the informants.
John O'Toole
#100. Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer capitalist despair-may confidently be anticipated. History is as simple a that.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
