History Quotes · Page 156

“The history of humanity is, to a very great extent, a history of violence.”

— David Livingstone Smith

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.

— Miguel de Cervantes

The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.

— Frederic William Maitland

“Of such things, petty annoyance and aimless thrusts, is history made.”

— Isaac Asimov

We must turn the page on the dark parts of our history.

— Jaime Harrison

A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold.

— Edmund Morgan

It's very important to me that I at least know the history of the music.

— Trombone Shorty

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

— Michelle Obama

I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'

— Gabby Douglas

I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.

— John Darnielle

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it…

— Thomas Carlyle

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

— Friedrich Engels

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It…

— Rachel Holmes

“The final recorded act in the order’s history had been the burning of the last grand master, Jacques de Molay, in March…

— Michael Baigent

Greek myths, early Roman history, is configured around violence against women. And I think we need to get in there, get our…

— Mary Beard

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

— Henry James

“Martin Luther King Jr. was the greatest movement leader in American history. But, as Hillary Clinton once correctly pointed out, his efforts…

— Mark Lilla

I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled out his…

— Kim Alexis

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I…

— Nelson Mandela

From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has…

— Martin Heidegger

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from…

— Carl Sagan

I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't…

— John Edgar Wideman

“So much of what we imagine to be the testimony of reason or the clear and unequivocal evidence of our senses is…

— David Bentley Hart

They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was…

— Tobias Dantzig

“... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

“Jesus won the war, and the rest of history is simply mopping up.”

— Carolyn Custis James

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

— Ken Burns

A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

— T. S. Eliot

Xavi is one of the best players in the history of football.

— Ernesto Valverde

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

— Salman Rushdie

“Those who do not learn the lessons of the past are condemned to repeat it.”

— Stephen King

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

— Ronald Wright

History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.

— Terence McKenna

Those who appose change will find themselves on the wrong side of history..

— Anonymous

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

— Constance Baker Motley

History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.

— Nelson Mandela

The Fourth of July observes one of the most seismic shifts in human history.

— Chad Wolf

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

— James W. Loewen