History Quotes · Page 121

History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.

— Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident.

— Anonymous

Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

— David Hume

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.

— Jon Turteltaub

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

— Paul Rusesabagina

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.

— John Updike

The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.

— Niall Ferguson

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.

— Pieter Geyl

The Henty books provide training in history and in many of the highest aspects of human character... American young people should read…

— Arthur B. Robinson

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things,…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

The people I find most impressive are generally unknown at the time of their actions and forgotten in history.

— Noam Chomsky

I can see that you [Bruce Cole] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody…

— Donald Kagan

“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.”

— Sara Sheridan

Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but…

— David Christian

I agree with... actually it was [Joseph] Stalin who said that [Winston Churchill] he was a man who changed the history of…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“A genealogy is a striking way of bringing before us the continuity of God's purpose through the ages. The process of history…

— Leon Morris

Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of…

— Daniel O'Connell

A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when…

— Stendhal

“When will we collectively see together that the history of the world played no role in preventing negative events similar to those…

— Suzy Kassem

If you're going to cheat and take people's history and you're not writing the Bible, you ain't really so great. But if…

— James McBride

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“history shows human beings to be the most dangerous of nature’s show-offs. Inimical to each other, given over to greed and insatiable…

— Ruskin Bond

“it becomes crystal clear that history is moving relentlessly towards unity.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Where it concerned history, she saw things that people seldom did.”

— Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

“No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for "Before Coffee.”

— Cherise Sinclair

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

— Rachel Holmes

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

— Holbrook Jackson

“I take comfort in knowing that the inevitable passage of time will erase my crimes from history.”

— Dennis B. Boyer

A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

— Wes Craven

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

— Idries Shah

My appearance qualifies me for historic characterizations, going back to the year one.

— Charlton Heston

History always tells a story... That's why you must always clear it before your dad uses the computer!

— Anonymous

All the statistics and history doesn't matters but MOMENTS does..

— Ketan Gandhi

Throughout the entire course of history, warfare is always changing.

— Andre Beaufre

I started realizing I have enough history that some of it has been forgotten.

— Robert Longo

Without knowing your own history, you are doomed to repeat it.

— Emily V. Gordon

I love Pittsburgh because it's a humble city. It's really grounded in its rich history and culture.

— Kyle Abraham

One phrase you don't want kicking off your obituary is, Never, in the long history of bungee jumping.

— Dana Gould