Famous Quotes
- The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on History
- The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
- Irving R. Kaufman on History
- The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on History
- The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
- Henry Miller on History
- The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
- Henry Louis Gates on History
- The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.
- George W. Bush on History
- The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.
- James Buchan on History
- The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.
- Nick Clegg on History
- The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.
- Shimon Peres on History
- The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
- Queen Elizabeth II on History
- The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
- George Orwell on History
- The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain on History
- The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
- Benjamin Disraeli on History
- The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
- M. Scott Peck on History
- The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
- Walter Bagehot on History
- The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
- The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
- Stephen Hawking on History
- The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
- William James on History
- The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
- Henry Ward Beecher on History
- The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
- David Brin on History
- The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
- The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.
- James Buchan on History
- Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
- Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
- Andre Malraux on History
- There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.
- Georgios A. Papandreou on History
- There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
- William Halsey on History
- There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
- Michelle Obama on History
- There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
- Pat Robertson on History
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
- Ansel Adams on History
- There aren't just bad people that commit genocide we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
- James Lovelock on History
- There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
- Theodore Roosevelt on History
- There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
- Coretta Scott King on History
- There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
- Salman Rushdie on History
- There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.
- Andy Grove on History
- There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
- James Lovelock on History
- There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
- Woodrow Wilson on History
- There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
- David Hume on History
- There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
- Claude Vorilhon on History
- There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
- Harry S. Truman on History
- There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
- Garth Brooks on History
- There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
- There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
- Barbara Kingsolver on History
- There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.
- Jeffrey Kluger on History
- There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.
- Charlie Kaufman on History
- There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.
- Tim Burton on History
- These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
- Michael N. Castle on History
- They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
- James Stockdale on History
- They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
- Douglas MacArthur on History
- They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
- G. Gordon Liddy on History
- Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on History
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