HISTORY QUOTES

• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• Acts of injustice done, Between the setting and the rising sun, In history lie like bones, each one.
  ~ W. H. Auden ~
• 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 ~
• The past is a story you can't change, but the future is a limitless destiny you can venture. Make your own history and your story shall live to be told.
  ~ Ally Fred ~
• We all have history, But it's your choice to live or leave history.
  ~ Muwi Chantel ~
• What will be, will be and that includes me rewriting history.
  ~ Ajiboye Temitopelodobaba ~
• Life is a mysterious so write the historys.
  ~ Naks Bwoy ~
• Yesterday is history, tomorrow is future and unknown, so enjoy every second of today.
  ~ Llewellyn Douglas ~
• Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
  ~ Hermann Hesse ~
• 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 ~
• The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
  ~ Voltaire ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
  ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton ~
• May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us
  ~ Wystan Hugh Auden ~
• Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
  ~ Walt Whitman ~
• Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
  ~ Voltaire ~
• I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
  ~ Robert Frost ~
• History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
  ~ Maya Angelou ~
• History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
  ~ Wystan Hugh Auden ~
• History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken.
  ~ James Joyce ~
• History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
  ~ James Joyce ~
• History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.
  ~ Carl Sandburg ~
• History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.
  ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
• 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 ~
• Ta-Saint speaking in wisdom and age, drained in spades of ace pray he don't get stained. drained from the spells of Egyptian. Care to patch me in a monarch history of deliverance and conspiracy theory Men.
  ~ Magod Scroef ~
• I look forward to horner,strength and vengeance of pride. Stive to explain your history but there is stress in the streets, pray for present moment to preach in screams to glorifie scary as it seems.
  ~ Magod Scroef ~
• History is a sagacious narrator, softly imparting its wisdom to those who are willing to glean lessons from the echoes of bygone eras.
  ~ Aloo Denish Obiero ~
• I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.
  ~ Hugh Laurie ~
• While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.
  ~ Eric Alterman ~
• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
  ~ Otto Von Bismarck ~
• For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
  ~ Conrad Black ~
• For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
  ~ Conrad Black ~
• Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.
  ~ Conrad Black ~
• Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.
  ~ Conrad Black ~
• Strip malls are history.
  ~ Jeff Bezos ~
• I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
  ~ John Cleese ~
• My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
  ~ Julie Andrews ~
• My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
  ~ Julie Andrews ~
• Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.
  ~ Emily Blunt ~
• I want to go down in history.
  ~ Haile Gebrselassie ~
• This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.
  ~ Haile Gebrselassie ~
• If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.
  ~ Temple Grandin ~
• If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.
  ~ Temple Grandin ~
• When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.
  ~ John Malkovich ~
• Ideas shape the course of history.
  ~ John Maynard Keynes ~
• A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
  ~ John Maynard Keynes ~
• Ideas shape the course of history.
  ~ John Maynard Keynes ~
• History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
  ~ Clarence Darrow ~
• In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
  ~ Edward De Bono ~
• I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.
  ~ Dick Gregory ~
• We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
  ~ Dick Gregory ~
• We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
  ~ Dick Gregory ~
• From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.
  ~ Jennifer Granholm ~
• As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.
  ~ Jennifer Granholm ~
• If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.
  ~ Josh Mcdowell ~
• If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.
  ~ Josh Mcdowell ~
• If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.
  ~ Josh Mcdowell ~
• When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
  ~ Robert Anton Wilson ~
• Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
  ~ Robert Anton Wilson ~
• History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
  ~ Robert Anton Wilson ~
• When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
  ~ Robert Anton Wilson ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
  ~ Henry James ~
• It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
  ~ Henry James ~
• But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
  ~ Damien Hirst ~
• But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
  ~ Damien Hirst ~
• But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
  ~ Damien Hirst ~
• I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.
  ~ Marc Jacobs ~
• Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.
  ~ Rob Sheffield ~
• At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'
  ~ Rob Sheffield ~
• At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'
  ~ Rob Sheffield ~
• Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
  ~ Barbara Jordan ~
• Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
  ~ Joe Baca ~
• Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
  ~ Joe Baca ~
• Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
  ~ Joe Baca ~
• From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
  ~ Umberto Eco ~
• To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
  ~ Charles Babbage ~
• To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
  ~ Charles Babbage ~
• To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
  ~ Charles Babbage ~
• But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
  ~ Dan Rather ~
• If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
  ~ Dan Rather ~
• But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
  ~ Dan Rather ~
• I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'
  ~ Andrea Jung ~
• History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
  ~ Edward Gibbon ~
• History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
  ~ Edward Gibbon ~
• 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 ~
• If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.
  ~ Thom Yorke ~
• I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
  ~ Queen Elizabeth Ii ~
• I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
  ~ Queen Elizabeth Ii ~
• 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 ~
• Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
  ~ Thomas Friedman ~
• It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.
  ~ Thomas Friedman ~
• Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
  ~ Thomas Friedman ~
• It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.
  ~ Thomas Friedman ~
• In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
  ~ James Hillman ~
• You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
  ~ Jawaharlal Nehru ~
• A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
  ~ Jawaharlal Nehru ~