History Quotes

Memory, therefore, not simply as the resurrection of one’s private past, but an immersion in the pas...

...Amar was made conscious in an instant of a presence in the air, something which had been there al...

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they ...

The implicit optimism of the [field service post card] is worth noting—the way it offers no provisio...

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has inc...

How could the Christian Church, apparently quite willingly, accommodate this weird megalomaniac [Con...

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think ...

Some people want the past repeated and have an interest in making sure we don't remember it.

The appeal to the intellectually insecure is also more important than it might seem. Because economi...

Beneath history, memory and forgettingBeneath memory and forgetting, life.

you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,

The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals.

History is: Fables agreed upon - Voltaire The biography of a few stout and earnest persons - Ralph W...

When the purpose of clearly exposing the differences between the Aryan and the Tamil culture, civili...

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, ch...

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the inte...

History is about longing and belonging. It is about the need for permanence and the perception of co...

Is Dust immortal then, I ask'd him, so that we may see it blowing through the Centuries? But as Walt...

For when I trace back the years I have liv'd, gathering them up in my Memory, I see what a chequer'd...

There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I ...

I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how ma...

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the...

Conspiracy theory, like causality, works fantastically well as an explanatory model but only if you ...

Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will ...

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on...

Our ancestors lived in groups of no more than a few hundred people, and those on the other side of a...

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradati...

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

What you should do," she told Fat during one of his darker hours, "is get into studying the characte...

It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturi...

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United Sta...

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our scie...

* Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of i...

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear f...

But all historians, one may say without exception, and in no half-hearted manner, but making this th...

He indeed who believes that by studying isolated histories he can acquire a fairly just view of hist...

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

...In our days many men have lived in this cruel manner, crushed against the bottom, but each for a ...

All the golden societies of the past to which historians point and turn their wistful smiles have ha...

Ultimately, the claim goes to the strongest, does it not? In the final sort of things, I mean. He wh...

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. T...

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literatur...

There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that...

All things are engaged in writing their history...Not a foot steps into the snow, or along the groun...

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

There is properly no history only biography.

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remot...

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fas...

The student is to read history actively not passively.

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese American...

The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big ...

The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are s...

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene ...

For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open w...

The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.

We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. An...

How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone wan...

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history ...

it is very tempting, when you talk about the events of the past, to impose clarity and order upon wh...

Never say more than is necessary.

I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the...

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature eith...

The older America, until the 1890s and in some respects until 1914, was wrapped in the security of c...

We cannot shake off three hundred years of fear in three hours.

Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We wer...

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gra...

Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the ...

The psychosphere, the logosphere, is permeated by concepts, ideas, verbalizations, a whole apparatus...

Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh...

The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and...

History, as taught by schools, has white washed the drunkenness out of the past. It has minimized th...

History has to live with what was here,clutching and close to fumbling all we had -it is so dull and...

Revolutionary moments often seem to occur in history when large numbers of individuals have a change...

you live through . . . that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only y...

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the lit...

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

But, the stultifying lingo aside, the question I raise is a vital one for us all, we are all stuck w...

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be...

Furthermore, a society with no sense of the past, with no sense of the human role as significant not...

It is hard to remember.”“Remember what?”“All that goes into the making of any one moment we live. Th...

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hea...

An individual is no match for history.

And I thought:History is like a horror story.

Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earni...

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help...

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find ou...

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.