History Quotes · Page 95

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

— Carol Tavris

“There is the history of opinions which is hardly anything but a collection of human errors.”

— Voltaire

In order for me to 'endorse' an intelligence, I need to carry out lots of research.

— Howard Gardner

“The 'wheel of fortune' is a better analogy for history than the 'evolution of humanity.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Don't ever forget the history. It will make and change who we are.

— Sukarno

“Before the tears that tore us, when our history was before us.”

— Lang Leav

The history of Germany is a mold for the history of Belarus.

— Alexander Lukashenko

We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.

— Robert E. Lee

History shows that pay-TV subscribers flee in droves to alternative providers when there is even a rare service disruption - demonstrating a…

— Gordon Smith

We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang.

— Daniel Morgan

Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.

— John Darnielle

What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call…

— Camille Paglia

“I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release…

— Shannon L. Alder

I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers,…

— Woody Allen

I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.

— Jo Beverley

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

— Garth Brooks

“Anyone who manages to experience the history of humanity as a whole as his own history will feel in an enormously generalized…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's…

— Salman Rushdie

She gave me Heath's number and I called ASAP! It rang a couple of time beofre Heath answere. Hey Madi! This is…

— Jade

I want to be remembered for the good things - for winning the Champions League, for winning five of the first six…

— Luis Suarez

History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled…

— Tansy Rayner Roberts

Oh my research. Well, I got an English Degree. And I got that degree in a certain time/at a certain place. If…

— Laura Mullen

“Pastor Bates was a careful reader of theology, literature and history. He delighted especially in Gibbon's woeful treatment of Christians in The…

— Scott M. Morris

“Victor Hugo continues to be popular today not because of his multivolume works, which people may never have time or patience to…

— Mouloud Benzadi

“as the tides of history rise and fall, worldviews rise and fall with them,”

— Heath White

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

— Thomas Jefferson

Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history.

— Graham Masterton

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

— John Vanbrugh

The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.

— Edgar Quinet

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed His name to go long offended.

— David Wilkerson

I'd like to do something impossible rather than just something historical.

— Eric Holmes

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“Writing your own qoutes is like you started writing your history.”

— Evan Ricafort

Im not a historian so dont bring up the past, its not my profession

— Hrt

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

— Anonymous

“The wholly desacralized cosmos is a recent discovery in the history of the human spirit.”1”

— Monica Sjöö

I was the youngest in the world in history when I started, 15. That's illegal now.

— Roddy Piper

History never embraces more than a small part of reality

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld