History Quotes · Page 127

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

— Philip Roth

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.

— Bernard Williams

Yesterday was history, tomorrow's a mystery, and today is a gift, that's why they call it the present.

— Anonymous

“What I was caught up in, I dimly understood, was the embodiment of history”

— Peter Cunningham

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

— Evita Peron

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

— Carl Jung

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

— William O. Douglas

“History will repeat itself, i will get hurt, and I will get back up. When i love someone, i will be willing…

— Jacob Incubus

In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the…

— William J. Clinton

I read more and more and I came across this character, Caroline Weldon. Sometimes in history, you find these people that no…

— Steven Knight

“History, largely experienced previously as a series of natural disasters, could now be seen as a movement in which everyone could potentially…

— Pankaj Mishra

For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief,…

— Thomas Carlyle

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

— Friedrich Engels

Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember…

— Taylor Branch

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

— R. Kelly

Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we do not falter in…

— James A. Baldwin

“Throughout history there have been populations that have lived in desperation, and none of them have resorted to the intentional targeting and…

— Brigitte Gabriel

Maurice Kenny stands at the forefront of his generation. Few writers of any ethnicity are destined to be remembered in the mainstream…

— Wendy Rose

“Still, it strikes me that, taken together, they do make an argument, and it is this: the rise of American democracy is…

— Jill Lepore

There's one thing about freedom ... each generation of people begins by thinking they've got it for the first time in history,…

— Rose Macaulay

“There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his…

— Leo Tolstoy

What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists…

— Boris Pasternak

“According to the history books, the decisive battle that ended the Ankh-Morpork Civil War was fought between two handfuls of bone-weary men…

— Terry Pratchett

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

— Anonymous

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

— Voltaire

If you can't trust the Bible's history, how can you trust its morality?

— Ken Ham

I know about making history because I did it when I became the very first Undisputed Champion.

— Chris Jericho

Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.

— Mitch McConnell

Friedrich Hayek is not an important figure in the history of macroeconomics.

— Paul Krugman

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

— Anatole France

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

— Eduard Shevardnadze

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.

— Edward Gibbon

I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

— Felicia Day

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

— Colum McCann

There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

— Octavia Spencer

'Wajah Tum Ho' experience in my history book will be in my top 5.

— Sana Khan

I do love history. I loved learning about wars and things in school.

— Matt Lanter

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

— Amartya Sen