History Quotes
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
While history is much more than a record of magnified personal encounters, it also remains rooted in individual personalities.Bernard Weisberger, America Afire
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.George Bernard Shaw
Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.William James
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.Willa Sibert Cathe
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.Jean Genet
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.Dwight David Eisenhowe
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.Kahlil Gibran
Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history.Ronald Reagan
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
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
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
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.Donald Creighton
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.Joseph Conrad
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 a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.Percy Bysshe Shelley
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
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
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.Stephen Spende
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.R. D. Laing
We learn from history that we do not learn from history.Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze.Unknown
History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.Enoch Powell
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears.John Ruskin
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.Thomas Carlyle
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
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984
Live out of your imagination, not your history.Stephen Covey
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.Benito Mussolini
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.Reinhold Niebuh
History is a vast early warning system.Norman Cousins
Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.Franklin P. Jones
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - Or to make it the last.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.Jean Bodin
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.Abba Eban
