History Quotes · Page 229

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

— H. G. Wells

“Hearts quaking with cheap and feeble charity or oozing potato love have not written history.”

— Saul Bellow

I was a history undergrad, and there's some things I could do in academics or business.

— Chris Borland

I am just one of many who have played their part in Argentina's football history.

— Mario Kempes

History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.

— Leonard Cohen

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

— Ariel Pink

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

— William Irwin Thompson

I'm Jewish, and so religion, to me, is a kind of moral code and a kind of history.

— Vera Rubin

“we had the whole history of the Corps behind us, and what a Marine has he holds; he kills or gets killed;…

— Albertus Wright Catlin

Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated…

— Richard Ebeling

Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole…

— Gregory Bateson

History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

— Barry Ritholtz

“Discovering the history of an individual saves you a lot of time, energy, money, and many more towards your own goal(s) in…

— Isaac Nash

Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

— Barack Obama

If you don't know your history, you don't have an idea how you channel things in your life. Knowing that history, I…

— Viv Richards

I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's…

— David McCullough

“When William Johnson and slave walked down that long, winding American road toward freedom and justice, they didn't realize they would be…

— Joy Hakim

“The theological meaning of events in history is always filled with ambiguity, whether their significance is supported by centuries of tradition or…

— Robert Louis Wilken

We started America with the sin of slavery that led right into the post-reconstruction period which was the greatest period of domestic…

— Cory Booker

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the…

— Taylor Caldwell

History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points…

— Geoffrey Elton

“Conventional belief holds that after triumphing over a mid-career bout with polio, FDR went on to serve two vigorous terms as gov-…

— Steven Lomazow

That was when I noticed how close this guy was getting. He put his hands on either side of me. Wait when…

— Jade

“Stories which have failed either to become popular folk lore or to be embalmed in old newspaper files are in great danger…

— Ruby Elhult

There's no question that history will record that I took a helluva shellacking.

— Walter F. Mondale

Soak in the history. Embrace the challenge. And feed off the hostility of the crowd.

— Eric Thomas

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

There was never a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.

— Edgar Dale

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

— Anonymous

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

— Anonymous

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.

— Carrie Fisher

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

— Rita Dove

“Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights.”

— Steven Pinker

I half cherish the hope that the end of history will be Swissness.

— Jan Morris

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

— Alexander Smith

Clevelanders have a long history with corrupt politicians and Shontel Brown doesn't fit the bill.

— Jason Johnson

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

— Van Wyck Brooks

“You are the author of your own destiny; write yourself into history books.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

— David Chang