“he who kills purpose kills is place in the great book of history” — ojo emmanuel david Copy Share Image
Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If you look at my history, my history is that of forming bands rather than joining them. — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
The great thing about America is that people take its history and mythologise it. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history. — Pierre Salinger Copy Share Image
“It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
“The problem with history is that every story has multiple witnesses, but no witness ever has the entire truth.” — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
“James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
I'm a history person, and I love the groundedness of that, of being able to go, "Yes! People acted like that." — Sharon Cameron Copy Share Image
The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and… — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image
Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and… — Richard Hornby Copy Share Image
“If this is the price to be paid for an idea, then let us pay. There is no need of being troubled… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it.” — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
It is obviously wonderful to be linked with a club with the history of Liverpool. — Jack Butland Copy Share Image
I cannot stand no wack MC. So step back if you please, And don't test me, you're history. — Del tha Funkee Homosapien Copy Share Image
History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind. — Johann Gustav Droysen Copy Share Image
Ohio is making history by launching the first K-12 AI lab in our nation. — Jon Husted Copy Share Image
“Keeping histories is as much about knowing what needs forgetting as what ought to be remembered.” — Leah Bobet Copy Share Image
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Events become feelings, feelings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.” — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history. — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In every sort of politics, in history, it has its own problems, its leaders, its own opposition. — Sonia Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Lots of people in history have only done their jobs and look at the trouble they caused” — Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors — Eoin MacNeill Copy Share Image
History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been. — Anonymous Copy Share Image