History Quotes
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.Gustave Flaubert
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.George Bernard Shaw
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.Edward R. Murrow
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.Leonard Louis Levinson
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.Honore De Balzac
History knows no resting places and no plateaus.Henry Kissinge
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason".
We are all citizens of history.Clifton Paul Fadiman
People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.Dan Quayle, 09/88
I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.Dwight David Eisenhowe
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse
There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men.Unknown
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.George W. Bush
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.Lord Billingsley
History is philosophy teaching by examples.Henry St. John Bolingbroke
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.Christa McAuliffe
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph.Haile Selassie
History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.Percy Bysshe Shelley
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it? always.Mahatma Gandhi
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.Sir Winston Churchill
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.Benjamin Disraeli
A country losing touch with its own history is like an old man losing his glasses, a distressing sight, at once vulnerable, unsure, and easily disoriented.George Walden
The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.John Still
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.Franois Maurice Mitterrand
History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.George Macaulay Trevelyan
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.William H. Borah
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.Sir Arthur Keith
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - A place where history comes to life.Norman Cousins
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.Lord John Whorfin
Those who don? t build must burn. It? s as old as history and juvenile delinquence.Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in.Edward Bedore
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.Robert
Mathematics is a vast adventure in ideas; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.Dirk Struik, A Concise History of Mathematics, vol. I
No great leader in history fought to prevent change.John Maxwell, 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leade
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.Karl Poppe
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.George Stanley McGovern
