History Quotes · Page 92

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...

— James Anthony Froude

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.”

— George Santana

“cancer is as old as the human race and has been documented since ancient history.”

— David B. Agus

For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity.

— Anonymous

“In understanding Black Africa, geography is more important than history. Fernand Braudel”

— Thomas Sowell

Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.

— Michael Specter

“Tetapi berkatalenih mudah dari pada berbuat, bukan?”

— Sulastin Sutrisno

In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater…

— Eyvind Johnson

“Rick's memory turned to fantasy as his mind took a different path than what reality had already turned into history.”

— Brenda Cothern

I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work,…

— Emma Donoghue

I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to…

— Walton Goggins

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings…

— Anonymous

The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on…

— Siri Hustvedt

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

— Frank Herbert

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

— Felix Rohatyn

I have probably become a lot more Zionist than I used to be. Jews have a history of being persecuted over a…

— Grant Shapps

The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just…

— Steven Spielberg

All of the Great Teachers throughout the history of our species have merely taught one thing, over & over, in whatever language,…

— David Hawkins

When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a family…

— Ato Essandoh

“...people who struggle against tyranny are more psychologically healthy than those who are docile and simply conform to current ways of thinking...there…

— David Mechanic

Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he…

— Kate Grenville

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the…

— Fidel Castro

The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble…

— William Hazlitt

We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.

— A. N. Wilson

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

— Anonymous

“History has shown that money is a salve unto itself for any malady of the troubled mind.”

— James Daniel Ross

Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.

— John Lydon

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

— George Papandreou

Herbert Hoover versus Al Smith in 1928 was one of the dirtiest elections in American history.

— Joseph Cummins

No problem in the history of humankind has ever gotten solved by evading it.

— Jemele Hill

“plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.”

— Paulo Coelho

“They’re the victors. They’ll write the history. Inconvenient truths will be forgotten soon enough.”

— Mark T. Barnes

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye

— Jack Handey

“one can discourage too much history in one's family, but one cannot always prevent geography.”

— Saki

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

— Paul Fussell

Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.

— Scott Anderson

Just because you have a past with someone, doesn't mean you should have a future with them.

— Robert Tew

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.

— Jacques Ellul

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

— Jessamyn West