History Quotes

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all ...

Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me ...

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past.

Well, let's see. There's—of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that ther...

Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was e...

I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some ...

But I can no longer ready any faith's Napoleonic saber rattling without picturing smoking rubble on ...

The thing that drew me to Lafayette as a subject - that he was that rare object of agreement in the ...

Still, compared to him, compared to the people we descend from, I am free of history. I'm so free of...

Robert Todd Lincoln, a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath.

The whole reason I wanted to take Owen to Disney World is that I fear that someday he's going to loo...

The whole reason I wanted to take Owen to Disney World is that I fear that someday he's going to loo...

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time.

Wainwright prayed to the graven image of Lafayette, since neither the president nor Congress seemed ...

You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the human...

The more history I learn, the more the world fills up with stories.

The groundswell of outrage over the invasion of Iraq often cited the preemptive war as a betrayal of...

By journey's end the brides were much better acquainted with their grooms and more or less pleased w...

Acts 16:9 is the meddler's motto, simultaneously selfless and self-serving, generous but stuck-up. I...

For Americans, Acts 16:9 is the high-fructose corn syrup of Bible verses--an all-purpose ingredient ...

. . . Nietzche himself had a Christian view of history, seeing the present moment always as some cri...

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of h...

flaunting the Kohinoor on the Queen Mother’s crown in the Tower of London is a powerful reminder of ...

I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says,...

I always think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrim...

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history...

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its ef...

I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, s...

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.

The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given ...

Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct ...

The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.

I know one thing, that I know nothing.

Call no man happy until he is dead.

I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileg...

As everyone knows, it is a thousand times easier to reconstruct the facts of what happened at a cert...

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

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.

Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America--we continue to rise and rise, li...

The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is not to teach history...

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather...

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be ...

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitr...

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesti...

This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the a...

The idea of decimation as a lottery converts the new iconography of the Burgess Shale into a radical...

In North Carolina, I stopped to gas up at a Humble Oil station, then walked around the corner to use...

History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.

The dancing sickness took place during the latter part of the fifteenth century. Bubonic plague--the...

I never realized that there was history close at hand beside my very own home. I did not realize t...

The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organi...

So holding many factors constant, we find that living in a civilization reduces one’s chances of bei...

In allowing the crucifixion to take place, God did the world an incalculable favor. Though infinitel...

One of the tragic ironies of the second half of the 20th century is that when colonies in the develo...

In the foreign country, we call the past, crucifixion was a common punishment. It was invented by th...

The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the r...

Positive legacy of the 1960s was the revolutions in civil rights, women’s rights, children’s rights,...

Some biblical scholars believe that the story of the fall from the Garden of Eden was a cultural mem...

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

During a famine, the father and stepmother of Hansel and Gretel abandon them in a forest so that the...

Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights.

What is truly arresting about our kind is better captured in the story of the Tower of Babel, in whi...

Their lives were precarious and they knew it. They were trying their best to fit themselves into a c...

My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is...

My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don’t know very much about, ...

Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current ev...

If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant pastSecurity in human systems we're told will always...

War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trench...

The word of the oldest of the old of our peoples didn't stop. It spoke the truth, saying that our fe...

When the war was in progress, England and France agreed wholeheartedly with the Fourteen Points. As ...

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, th...

We were fond together because of the sweep of open places, the taste of wide winds, the sunlight, an...

Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents.

The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presenc...

The backward look behind the assuranceOf recorded history, the backward half-lookOver the shoulder, ...

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of t...

Human history is a Gaian dream.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collecti...

It’s very important that people take back their minds and that people analyse our dilemma in the con...

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

where actual evidence had been a bit sparse he had, in the best traditions of the keen ethnic histor...

Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming mega...

Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated...

History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darne...

Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through t...

In many cases where one is content to lead a secluded life it is not necessary to say much of one's ...

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as fir...

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

History a distillation of rumor