History Quotes
10030 History quotes by 5052 unique authors
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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
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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
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
— Aristotle
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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
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Louis Armstrong
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
— Neil Armstrong
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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
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
— Julian Assange
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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
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Natural history is not about producing fables.
— David Attenborough
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
— Dean Acheson
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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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
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
— Ibrahim Babangida
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