History Quotes
Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.George W. Bush
History is full of surprises.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.Joseph Conrad
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.Frederic William Maitland
What experience and history teach is this - That nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.Margaret Thatche
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?, 1993
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.Anna Mary Robertson Moses
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.Gustave Flaubert
We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.Lawrence K. Frank
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.Voltaire
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
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.W. H. Auden
For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth.William Shakespeare
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.Jean Bodin
Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.Franklin P. Jones
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.James A. Garfield
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.Peter Quennell
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.Oswald Mosley
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.George Frost Kennan
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
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.Eugene V. Debs
No great leader in history fought to prevent change.John Maxwell, 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leade
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.Dave Barry
An honest election, under democracy, is an act of innocence which does not take place more than once in the history of a given nation.Jose Marie Gil Robles, speech in Madrid, 1933
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life - Time. The test of greatness is the page of history.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Morpheus Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.Matrix, The
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.Jean Genet
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.Erich Fromm
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.Mark Yost
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.Mitch Ratcliffe
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.Nadia Boulange
