History Quotes
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
Morpheus Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.Matrix, The
It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.John B. Gough
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.Edmund Burke
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
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.G. M. Trevelyan
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.Abba Eban
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
History is a vast early warning system.Norman Cousins
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.Wystan Hugh Auden
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
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.Barbara Tuchman
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
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.Napoleon Bonaparte
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
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.Bertie Forbes
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.Sir Winston Churchill
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
No great leader in history fought to prevent change.John Maxwell, 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leade
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.Frederic William Maitland
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
Live out of your imagination, not your history.Stephen Covey
The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.Henry Kissinge
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - - A terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.George McGovern
History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken.James Joyce
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.Jean Genet
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.George W. Bush
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.Sir Arthur Keith
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.Mitch Ratliffe
For four - Fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.J. W. Schopf
It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.Arnold J. Toynbee
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.Churchill
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.Alvin Toffle
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.James A. Garfield
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
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
