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History Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
- I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is…
- It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight…
- "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ...…
- History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced
- But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the government. Once abolish the God, and the…
- The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
- Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in…
- The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.
- Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the…
- The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
- It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend…
- If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development,…
- The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of…
- Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the…
- The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is…
- We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
- The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage,…
More History Quotes
- 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