Quotes
Quotes about History
A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
Happy is the nation without a history.
History is a pageant, not a philosophy.
I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
The dignity of history.
What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History's purchased page to call them great?
And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.
All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than once.
History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature; his earliest expression of what can be called Thought.
History, a distillation of rumor.
All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.
What more would you have? He has invented history. [Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]
The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.
Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
There is properly no history, only biography.
History is more or less bunk.
The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, and misfortunes of mankind.
And read their history in a nation's eyes.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
