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History Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
- And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are…
- Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of…
- Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.
- If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
- The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
- The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
- I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as…
- We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
- A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will…
- The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and…
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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… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — 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,… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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,… — David Attenborough