“Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness.” — James C. Malin Copy Share Image
I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people. — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about. — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
I used to love history and then I was bad at it. I got a B at GCSE. I was so gutted. — Tom Rosenthal Copy Share Image
I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do. — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing. — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
“History has a clear and distinct voice, but it does not force itself upon us uninvited. History” — Stephen K. Ray Copy Share Image
'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers… — Keeley Hawes Copy Share Image
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
“Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great… — Mathew Brady Copy Share Image
“He glanced around the reading room and closed his eyes, trying to keep hold of the past for a minute longer, a… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I truly hope that we can evolve with technology, and use it for the benefit of all mankind, but history might suggest… — Betty Gabriel Copy Share Image
No we do not kill them. I'm practically in his lap with my head against his chest listening to his heart beat.… — Jade Copy Share Image
September 11, 2001, was a terrible tragedy by any measure, but it was not a historical turning point. It did not herald… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic… — Fritz Muller Copy Share Image
The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
What's so interesting to me about history is - what's interesting to anyone - is how humans are the same. Their belief… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“To awaken to history was to cease to live instinctively. It was to begin to see oneself and one’s group the way… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, you gravitate to certain subjects, and I read a lot of history. — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
“To become aware of our history is to become aware of our singularity.” — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I think to the extent Republicans depart from the historic commitment, we do so at our peril. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
“Yes, if the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story.” — Nico J. Genes Copy Share Image
The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.” — Richard Marius Copy Share Image
I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques. — Kelly Wearstler Copy Share Image
The proud fight against colonialism is one that should be consigned to history. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
