History Quotes · Page 110

“The greatest of all historical shams is believing you can not do something you can.”

— Erik Petersen - Love and Rage

“You’re naïve, Hari. Or not a historian, which is the same thing.”

— Anonymous

“Oblivion has always been the most trustworthy guardian of classified files.”

— Lee Sandlin

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

— Warren Buffett

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

— Leon Battista Alberti

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

— Karl Jaspers

It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the, same Now.

— Jerril Thomas Abraham

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

— Marcus Aurelius

There is no existence without history, and there are few battles that mark it better than Frazier-Ali I.

— Teddy Atlas

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization…

— Bill Walton

I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge.

— Luc Sante

All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no…

— Hugh Miller

“Among the many who fruitlessly attempted thoughout history to create a time machine, one individual actually succeeded. He was surprisingly not a…

— Benson Grayson

Radio was always a fun, geeky thing to be a fan of - the history of radio, where it is, and where…

— Elvis Duran

American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.

— Chris Jordan

The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war,…

— Jon Meacham

History will not judge our endeavors--and a government cannot be selected--merely on the basis of color or creed or even party affiliation.…

— John F. Kennedy

I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is…

— Timothy Garton Ash

“We have the right to demand that if we find men against whom there is not only suspicion, but almost a certainty…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of…

— Walter Benjamin

“Protestantism and Catholicism must not be compared to Sunnism and Shi'ism in the Islamic context as has been done by certain scholars.…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“The poets made all the words and therefore language is the archives of history, and, if we must say it, a sort…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In spring, 1937, of course, families still rode the rails because of the Depression, which everyone said was already in the history…

— Ronald Geigle

The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will,…

— Carl Becker

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

— Paul Mooney

The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.

— Glenn Beck

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

— Chuck D

The beauty about history is that it's open to perception.

— Ekta Kapoor

Donald Trump is the most dangerous person to run for president in the modern history of America.

— Hillary Clinton

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

— Louis Fischer

“There is no history for brainwashed people They are like robots who think how their lords want”

— Javad M

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

— Gilbert White

We must thank to all the failed people in the history as they showed us the true way to success!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Our museum uses dinosaurs to help tell their true history according to the Bible.”

— Anonymous

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Not to be pompous about it - my thing in life is to write history and not to chat on TV 24…

— Michael Beschloss

I fight for my name. For my dad's last name to be recognized in the history books of boxing.

— Mikey Garcia

That was the absolute worst catch phrase I've ever heard in the history of Monday Night Raw.

— Stone Cold Steve Austin

I like the idea of having historical films about black women who are just having fun.

— Nia DaCosta