I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance. — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the, same Now. — Jerril Thomas Abraham Copy Share Image
“All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Im currently single, but my relationship history has taught me that its not good to settle. I hope one day I am… — Gethin Jones Copy Share Image
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Joyce is right about history being a nightmare—but it may be the nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
You can put people's feet to the fire a bit just by reminding them that we're constantly creating our own history. — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
The joy of Jesus will be my strength - it will be in my heart. Every person I meet will see it… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What borders on the criminal is the poor teaching and neglect of those subjects that deal with the history of ideas and… — John Mortimer Smith Copy Share Image
“Historians concluded that in the twentieth century about sixty genocides had occurred in the world, but not all of them entered historical… — Patrik Ouředník Copy Share Image
[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
“If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Oblivion has always been the most trustworthy guardian of classified files.” — Lee Sandlin Copy Share Image
“The greatest of all historical shams is believing you can not do something you can.” — Erik Petersen - Love and Rage Copy Share Image
Simón Bolívar is the only person in history to be exiled from a country named after him. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions. — Cosima Spender Copy Share Image
History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“We cannot help but be interested in the stories of people that history pushes aside so thoughtlessly.” — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly. — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
“That, being as blunt as I can, is my approach to the history of the United States.” — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“History is written by the victors,’ she said, ‘but the truth has a way of revealing itself.” — Sebastien de Castell Copy Share Image
“... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all. — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image