History Quotes · Page 85

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

— Voltaire

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Historical fact: people stopped being human in 1913.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

— George Gaylord Simpson

“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.”

— Anonymous

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery

— Ben Harper

“Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology.”

— Christopher Henry Dawson

The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused…

— Johan Huizinga

If somebody tells you 'History will never forgive you,' just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won't be here!…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I meant to spend the day writing, but instead I spent the afternoon cleaning out my belly button. Historians will thank me…

— Jarod Kintz

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

— Honore de Balzac

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

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

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

“A moral cynicism was sapping the strength of our society, half-lies were not only condoned, but regarded as smart. Many had remained…

— Abie Abraham

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded…

— Hannah Arendt

“Diamond writes, can be summarized in a single sentence: “History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples’ environments,…

— Nicholas Wade

“There is another, grimmer history to the filibuster, though, one that carries special relevance for me. For almost a century, the filibuster…

— Barack Obama

The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing…

— Tom Chatfield

I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if…

— David Weber

It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history…

— Felix S. Cohen

“I was an intruder, at best a visitor, and would be even in my home, in my misremembered history, until the glow…

— Kevin Powers

First governor in Arkansas history to ever lower taxes.

— Mike Huckabee

Any time you're rewarded and can be a part of history, it's a special moment.

— Aaron Donald

“My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone.”

— Kit Reed

“The history of our desires is the story of how e lose ourselves to them.”

— Tiffany Watt Smith

“... history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless.”

— David Malouf

Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.

— Ridley Scott

There are few instances when American history offers us two clear sides of a moral line.

— Joy Reid

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

— George Wald

“According to her, if he hasn't been dead twenty years, he isn't history.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Espionage is the world's second oldest profession.”

— Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

When I think of black television and history, I always use 'The Cosby Show' as the bar.

— Wendy Raquel Robinson

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

— Max Born

Me at parties: 'Like, do you want to know the historical context of the prophet Jeremiah?'

— Julien Baker

“And so you have more opportunities and more responsibilities than any other generation in history.”

— Mark Kurlansky

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

— Ben H. Winters

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

— Henry Miller