History Quotes

10030 History quotes by 5052 unique authors

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very… — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history… — Hannah Arendt
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of… — Aristotle
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had… — Neil Armstrong
In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths.… — Julian Assange
Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a… — David Attenborough
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use… — David Attenborough
It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first… — David Attenborough
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should… — David Attenborough
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their… — Chinua Achebe
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. — Dean Acheson
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. — Wystan Hugh Auden
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius
Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy. — Ibrahim Babangida

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