History Quotes · Page 63

Most historians are engaged in fiction.

— Peter Morgan

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

— George Eliot

I've always been interested in history and legacy.

— Jon Rahm

I came to the UFC to make history.

— Charles Oliveira

History is a story written by the finger of God.

— C. S. Lewis

“Every age has its darkness…”

— Liz Braswell

“[...] no man is free of his own history.”

— Anita Brookner

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

— Thomas Carlyle

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

— Anonymous

I am the greatest heel, which means the bad guy in the wrestling history.

— The Iron Sheik

I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

— Leonard Cohen

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

— Oscar Wilde

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

— Richard Dawkins

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

The thing about me is that my secret passion is history.

— James Bobin

History is not written in the interests of morality.

— Agnes Repplier

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Even during a mid-life crisis do not deviate from your goal. History remembers only those who succeed.”

— Hockson Floin

“The attitude of a student in history should be do not accept anything until proven otherwise. Doubt everything including your parentage! Including…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

Paris is different from LA in regards to its historical architecture. I think that's what gives Paris it's charm and beauty.

— Kenya Kinski-Jones

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I engage with a lot of journalists, some of them have history and some of them don't, that's not my concern. My…

— John Key

“The difference between gossip and history is if the person being talked about is alive or dead. Roy Carl Weiler Sr.”

— Roy Weiler

We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“maybe you can tell me what the history books got wrong." I nodded, speech centers of my brain overridden by the same…

— Edward W. Robertson

In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until the Western…

— Marmaduke Pickthall

Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace.…

— Anonymous

I think three debates [primary debates] is the right number. I think that, uh, they'll be extremely well watched. There are those…

— Donald Trump

“There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. And just as such a…

— Walter Benjamin

“If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every…

— Joseph Stalin

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance…

— Thomas Jefferson

“I began with the desire to speak with the dead.”

— Stephen Greenblatt

Work hard, have fun and make history.

— Jeff Bezos

History works itself out in the living.

— Louise Erdrich

“I like fiction and the history...Great!”

— Anonymous

“History is running very fast in my country.”

— Victor Robert Lee

History is a point of view always.

— Atul Kulkarni

History belongs to the intercessors

— Walter Wink

I find I like it too much.

— Stonewall Jackson