History Quotes · Page 166

In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.

— Julian Assange

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

— Lucien Febvre

“I have got the Arctic lure and will certainly go North again.”

— Louise Arner Boyd

“The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.”

— Baroness Emma Orczy

I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door!

— Leonardo da Vinci

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

— Stockwell Day

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

— Harry S. Truman

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

— Marge Piercy

“So, interpretation must proceed wholly by fitting those authors into their social and historical environments. Anything else is alleged to be a…

— Peter A. Lillback

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

— Bruce Jackson

I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind…

— Richard Flanagan

Berlin is one of my favorite cities in the world. I feel like the energy is very youthful. It has such an…

— Mark Zuckerberg

'Wicked' has been one of the biggest hits in Los Angeles theatre history, and we are thrilled that theatergoers here have embraced…

— Marc Platt

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of…

— Mark Twain

“I’m erasing myself from the narrative. Let future historians wonder how Eliza reacted when you broke her heart.”

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what…

— Jonathon Keats

I'll tell you...why Wonder Woman worked. Or Bionic Woman. Or any of those [shows] really. It was because it wasn't about brawn...it…

— Lynda Carter

We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no…

— Robert Frost

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything?…

— Maya Angelou

“The world had reclaimed its own reality, and, just like after a catastrophe, my culture had ended: I was merely a historical…

— Clarice Lispector

“GOD IS SO WONDERFULLY GENEROUS in his self-disclosure. He has not revealed himself to this race of rebels in some stinting way,…

— D.A. Carson

My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical…

— Jean Nouvel

“Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church would be enacted but no…

— Adam Nicolson

HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen…

— Douglas Coupland

The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.

— Barbara Boxer

Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.

— Sergei Lavrov

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

— James Bryce

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

— James A. Garfield

America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.

— Rudy Giuliani

“All that reading and the only thing he’d learned was that shifters were shitty historians.”

— Cardeno C

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

— Raymond Queneau

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history

— Gavin Newsom

Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO.

— George W. Bush

I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

— Jimmy Hoffa

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

— Aldous Huxley

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

— Agnes Repplier

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

— Michael Ondaatje

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

— Romain Rolland

“In the last 3,421 years of recorded history, only 268 have seen no war”

— Will Durant 1968

“Don't waste time defending your intentions. History will judge you by the outcomes of your actions”

— Savania China