History Quotes

History is philosophy teaching by examples.
Henry St. John Bolingbroke
Napoleon bonaparte - what is history but a fable agreed upon....
History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
Albert Camus
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast.
Albert Coope
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.
E. M. Cioran
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
G. M. Trevelyan
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.
Sir Arthur Keith
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Nikita Khrushchev
Hendrik w. van loon - in history as in life it is success that counts....
Karl r. poppe - the history of science is everywhere speculative....
History repeats itself historians repeat each other.
Philip Guedalla
It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.
Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
History is the unfolding of miscalculation.
Barbara Tuchman
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good.
Lyndon B. Johnson
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
Churchill
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.
Theodore Harold White
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Virginia Woolf
When you read history it is quite astonishing to discover that there never was a day when men thought times were really good. Every generation in history has been haunted by the feeling of crisis.
Harold Walke
History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex - Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.
Robert Joseph Bob Dole
History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
James A. Forude
History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.
Arnold J. Toynbee
News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.
Gene Fowle
The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.
Henry Kissinge
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.
Thomas Carlyle
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 more or less bunk.
Henry Ford
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Sir Winston Churchill
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
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history.
Ronald Reagan
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U. S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.
Stephen Ambrose, D - Day, page 577
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.
George W. Bush, Inaugural address, 2001
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi, _Gandhi, An Autobiography_, page 446
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