Quotes
Quotes about History
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.
No: by the names inscribed in History's page,
Names that are England's noblest heritage,
Names that shall live for yet unnumbered years
Shrined in our hearts with Cressy and Poictiers;
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.
While we read history we make history.
Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.
He [Voltaire] has invented history.
History damns
History is not tactual. The factual is different from the actual.
He mused on history and responsibility. Did it have some to us, or we to it? Whose history? There was a crass futlity in the big abstract monster, composite of unrecorded lives.
History, then. He was not opting out of it.
So a useless truth obtrudes on to a most ravishing lie. I would say finally that, as the earth turns and the truth of summer and the lie of winter interchange, so the bulky ball of history revolves, and what a man dies for may become the thing that dies for him.
One looks for Eden in history, best left unvisited, for the primal sin is always a present sin
All through history mind limps after reality
You can take your choice of time and space. In matters of history you can't have both
We must help history along. History walks slowly. We must give history a ride in a fast automobile
You start off with time, and if you have time you have to have history. But you only get history when you put things inside time
I had never yet had a bad dream when sleeping in Rome, perhaps because all the badness of life there was reserved to the waking time. Here was the sewer of history, and it was an open sewer
To believe that what has not occured in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
The progress of the world is the history of men who would not
History does not repeat itself; historians merely repeat each other.
We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
