History Quotes

Virginia woolf - for most of history, anonymous was a woman....
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.
Lord John Whorfin
We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
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
John fitzgerald kennedy - geography has made us neighbors. history has made...
Henry david thoreau - books are the carriers of civilization. without...
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.
James Baldwin
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
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
Joseph Conrad
History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.
Philip Skelton
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.
Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin
History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation (p. 208)
Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
William James
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.
Tom Stoppard
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert
History knows no resting places and no plateaus.
Henry Kissinge
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
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.
E. M. Cioran
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse
If we fight a war and win it with H - Bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
Hans A. Bethe
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it? always.
Mahatma Gandhi
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?, 1993
Well behaved women seldom make history.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Jean Genet
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - But it is terrible when one has to live it.
Jean Anouilh
Regrets are idle yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
Charles Dudley Warne
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
Mark Twain
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 is philosophy teaching by examples.
Henry St. John Bolingbroke
What experience and history teach is this - That nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.
Henry Kissinge
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
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
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey
History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.
David Hume
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Dwight David Eisenhowe