History Quotes
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.Aldous Huxley
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
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.Dwight D Eisenhowe
History is a vision of God? s creation on the move.Arnold Toynbee
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.Aldous Huxley
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
It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.William James
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.Wystan Hugh Auden
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.Oswald Mosley
We are all citizens of history.Clifton Paul Fadiman
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - A place where history comes to life.Norman Cousins
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.Leonard Louis Levinson
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.Lawrence K. Frank
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 is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.Theodore Harold White
There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men.Unknown
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.Robert Anson Heinlein
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.Camille Paglia
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.George Bernard Shaw
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.James Joyce
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.Nikita Khrushchev, remark at the Polish embasy in Moscow, Nov. 18, 1956
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.H. G. Wells
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so... for Jack history was full of heroes.Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.Carl Rowen
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others history, men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.Aldous Huxley
For four - Fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.J. W. Schopf
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.Thomas Carlyle
This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation. Saluting crew of the Apollo 11.Richard Milhous Nixon
History never looks like history when you are living through it.John W. Gardner, quoted by Bill Moyers
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.Lytton Strachey
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.James A. Garfield
