Quotes
Quotes about History
It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
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.
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
History is a confused heap of facts.
History is philosophy learned from examples.
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
History knows no resting place and no plateaus.
History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
The Thames is liquid history.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
