History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The Underground Railroad was a spy network for the North and that story has never been told. — Misha Green Copy Share Image
“The received truth of history is shot through and falsified by unknown secrets carried to the grave.” — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Hiding from your history only shackles you to it. Instead, face it and free yourself. — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory of God… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I just love the history of acting. It's such a beautiful craft and you absolutely get out of it what you put… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great… — Steny Hoyer Copy Share Image
The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I would take issue with the assertion that President Trump has reached out to a diverse group for his cabinet secretaries. In… — Sarah McBride Copy Share Image
When I went to high school - that's about as far as I got - reading my U.S. history textbook, well, I… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
If you're constantly being reminded of the ways in which your history and your narrative as a people were rooted in loss… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For...… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If we're ignorant of the historical sacrifices that made our liberties possible, we will be less likely to make the sacrifices again… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“history is not an autonomous or complementary category of epistemology. Rather, Van Til held that an ontological knowledge of God is given… — William D. Dennison Copy Share Image
I know something about that war, and I never want to see that history repeated. But, my fellow Americans, it certainly can… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“You can’t invent a historically memorable event, unless it really happened.” — Shulem Deen Copy Share Image
The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career. — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
I hire talented, creative, passionate learners who have a history of turning intention into reality. — Jeff Henderson Copy Share Image
“When you elect people who were part of history; they are most likely to repeat them.” — Henry Johnson Jr Copy Share Image
Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long. — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I'm not a practicing Jew but my great-grandparents were. It's part of our family history. — DeAndre Yedlin Copy Share Image
To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image