Quotes About Of History

#1. A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

Ronald Reagan

#2. The arch of History is long, but it bends towards justice.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.

N.D. Wilson

#4. Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.

Stephen L. Carter

#5. Revolutionaries are insomniacs, too afraid of history's nightmare to sleep, too troubled by the world's ills to be less than awake.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#6. The victors' view of history rarely matches that of the vanquished.

Kevin Hearne

#7. They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives ...

Franz Kafka

#8. The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.

Tom Stoppard

#9. Not only was he one of history's greatest leaders, Abraham Lincoln was one of history's most devoted readers. Doris Kearns Goodwin writes of Lincoln, "Books became his academy, his college. The printed word united his mind with the great minds of generations past.

Pat Williams

#10. The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

Jacqueline Carey

#11. However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#12. All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. Part of history is tracing artifacts and looking at patterns.

A.G. Riddle

#14. It would be one of the great tragedies of history if at the very moment of the victory, now within our grasp, such distrust, such lack of faith, should prejudice the entire undertaking after the colossal losses of life, material and treasure. Churchill

David McCullough

#15. One soul, the Saviour, changes the course of history.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.

Robert Fisk

#17. Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.

Axel Alonso

#18. One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow.

Irshad Manji

#19. But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.

Rafael Palmeiro

#20. To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to the economics of pricing, whereas socialists built exploitative and inhumane societies on the basis of a morally inflamed approach to economics.

Kevin D. Williamson

#22. The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

Derek Walcott

#23. Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

James Rollins

#24. I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

Alan Shepard

#25. Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.

George W. Bush

#26. No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.

Barbara Tuchman

#27. You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.

Stella Adler

#28. To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes and structures of history and ultimately master them.

James MacGregor Burns

#29. I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.

Charlie Cox

#30. A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going. What history misses, the myth clearly expresses. The myth in the hands of a genius give us a clear picture of the inner import of life itself.

Tom Harpur

#31. Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind.

T.R. Fehrenbach

#32. Now where does he sit as he thinks of her? These years later. A stone of history skipping over the water, bouncing up so she and he have aged before it touches the surface again and sinks.

Michael Ondaatje

#33. The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals.

Orson Scott Card

#34. One of the most unique aspects among many about the USA is that our transitions of 'power' have almost always been peaceful. This is very unique in all of history and in the world today.

R. Alan Woods

#35. It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.

Emile Durkheim

#36. I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

Paul Mooney

#37. She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.

Henry James

#38. Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don't remember what happened yesterday.

Howard Fast

#39. An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

Susan Abulhawa

#40. I'm a little bit of a news political junkie, a little bit of a reader of history.

David Mandel

#41. Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.

Yann Martel

#42. You see, that is the secret of history, little Briony - who tells the last story.

Tad Williams

#43. It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Brian Friel

#44. A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

Nelson DeMille

#45. The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.

Tacitus

#46. The future of Arab films is absolutely up to Arabs and no one else. They've got the equipment, they've got the will, they've got the talent, now they just need a little bit of history behind them and a bit of cultural relaxation.

Alexander Siddig

#47. All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact - yet the facts are mine to use as I will and, even using them truthfully, I change them.

Frank Herbert

#48. The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. to this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Bertrand Russell

#49. What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

David Hume

#50. Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#51. Man has the power to act as his own destroyer
and that is the way he has acted through most of history.
Atlast Shrugged

Ayn Rand

#52. People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.

Kage Baker

#53. The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we
recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.

Winston Churchill

#54. And it is a great fact of history that the most mediocre and well-meaning imbeciles can strike down the mighty with surprising effectiveness when there is such a huge disparity of souls.

Anne Rice

#55. The interactions of business and culture, one upon the other, form one of the least explored phases of history. For such a study, no city would appear better fixed than Florence, so richly dowered with both economic and spiritual vitality.

Mary Ritter Beard

#56. It must always remain the great curiosity of history - a whim, a fantasy, an apparition, a thing unexpected and undreamed; and it should serve as a warning to those rash political theorists of to-day who speak with certitude of social processes. Capitalism

Jack London

#57. the studious examination of the past in the greatest of detail does not teach you much about the mind of History; it only gives you the illusion of understanding it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#58. You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhole, a quicksand in which you become stuck, unable to write yourself free.

Jodi Picoult

#59. I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

Park Geun-hye

#60. drown out the noise of time, is transformed into the whisper of history. This

Julian Barnes

#61. In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

Anthony Sampson

#62. India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

Mark Twain

#63. The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

David P. Thelen

#64. Web standards keep you out of the dustbin of history.

Joshua Greenberg

#65. Doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.

Barack Obama

#66. As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

Joseph Boyden

#67. There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history.

William Halsey

#68. Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

Pieter Geyl

#69. Dear friends, may no adversity paralyze you. Be afraid neither of the world, nor of the future, nor of your weakness. The Lord has allowed you to live in this moment of history so that, by your faith, his name will continue to resound throughout the world.

Pope Benedict XVI

#70. The ifs and buts of history ... form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet.

Vikram Seth

#71. Nothing is more alien to the present age than idleness. If we think of resting from our labours, it is only in order to return to them.
In thinking so highly of work we are aberrant. Few other cultures have ever done so. For nearly all of history and all prehistory, work was an indignity.

John N. Gray

#72. The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote ... and me!

Simon Bolivar

#73. My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of history - for never has there been so little war in a war.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#74. Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Francis Bacon

#75. Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.

Hans Haacke

#76. A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Mahatma Gandhi

#77. In the course of history no people have ever been given freedom like a present, and if freedom did not cost anything than no people would ever keep it! Freedom has a high price, and men must ever struggle to preserve it.

Adolf Hitler

#78. We can't completely rely on the aberrations of history to explain today's European necessities. Future-related issues are no less pressing.

Jean-Claude Juncker

#79. While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant.

Lionel Barber

#80. Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.

Benito Mussolini

#81. Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#82. [On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

Maureen Dowd

#83. His name put in with the great traitors, con men, and self-aggrandizing egomaniacs of history.

James S.A. Corey

#84. Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance, they offered a truth beyond realities, a remembrance beyond memories.

Hannah Arendt

#85. There has come into fashion a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing facts and all gloomy questions.

Victor Hugo

#86. And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

Robert Penn Warren

#87. This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit of Geoffrey's ideas about anatomical unity.

Stephen Jay Gould

#88. The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them ...

Susan Sontag

#89. The lesson of history is that we don't learn the lessons of history.

Thomas G. Donlan

#90. Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion?

Sigmund Freud

#91. In Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride Frank X Walker helps restore to public memory one of history's greatest jockeys. Isaac Murphy's story has universal significance but it is very much a Kentucky story, of which all Kentuckians should be proud.

Gurney Norman

#92. The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#93. Being called Black in America is the struggle to keep us moving and breathing over bloody water. Being a Nig**r or [Ni**a] without the context of history is like drowning in bloody water, dragging down those yet knowing to swim.

Chuck D

#94. Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden of history is what man has been; of law, what he does; of physiology, what he is; of ethics, what he ought to be; of revelation, what he shall be.

George Finlayson

#95. We live in a world that's very fast, where we get bombarded with huge amounts of information very quickly, and I have tried to tailor my voice to the times, which I think, writers, over the course of history - many have always done.

James Frey

#96. It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.

Corazon Aquino

#97. After years of feeling like a misfit, I've realized that the world is full of other misfits, all of us identifying with Hobbits - - the little guys whom no one else respects. And who quietly end up changing the course of history.

Tess Gerritsen

#98. I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.

Mohammed Morsi

#99. That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.

Kate Morton

#100. ... the facts of history all appeared to me like specimens in a herbarium, permanently dried, so that it was easy to forget they had once upon a time been juicy with sap and alive in the sun.

Andre Gide