History Quotes · Page 101

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

— James Joyce

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.

— Josip Broz Tito

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

History of Spain is partially borrowed from Arabs , and Partially embezzled from Americas

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

— Adam Weishaupt

History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.

— James Redfield

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

— David McCullough

In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on…

— Dick Thornburgh

Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.

— George R. R. Martin

Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners…

— Charlie Munger

“Well, the Dean has asked me to speak on "The Role of Logic in Human Affairs". Of course, if I take the…

— Apostolos Doxiadis

Driving a Model T Ford was extremely difficult. The pedals are reversed from the way they are now. It's so crude, but…

— David Jason

I believe that in years to come, historians will see the beginning of the 21st century as the ‘golden age’ of real…

— David Lereah

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of…

— Anonymous

“When I started researching airline stewardesses, I found that the topic made for amusing cocktail party banter. “You’re writing a book about…

— Victoria Vantoch

“This is the thing: If you have the option to not think about or even consider history, whether you learned it right…

— Tommy Orange

“Our generation will likely have the good fortune to experience two of the most amazing events in history: the creation of true…

— Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past… Each…

— George Steiner

“In what must surely be considered one of the great lost scripts of history (or a Saturday Night Live sketch), Chase brought…

— Brett Martin

Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than have ever been…

— Nell Irvin Painter

In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the…

— Henry Louis Gates

Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you…

— Sam Houston

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself.

— Ameen Rihani

When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life.

— Thomas Schlamme

I think people love to see history being made, history being broken.

— Justin Rose

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

— Anonymous

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

— Nicolas Chamfort

“Never before in history had the world actually believed in the equality of man.”

— Peter Marshall

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

— Jefferson Davis

Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.

— Amish Tripathi

The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read.

— Saul David

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

— Samuel Johnson

Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn't.

— Adam Curtis

To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy

— R. A. Salvatore

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

— Thomas Starr King

“The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty.”

— Eduardo Galeano

“..It's our history, some of it's painful, some of it's beautiful, but it's who we are!”

— Malcom Cooper

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor

— Tom Berenger