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History Quotes by Henry Adams
- Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
- I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
- The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain…
- A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.
- The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
- History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.
- No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a…
- Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it. No…
- As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my…
- History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.
- History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.
- History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.
- Nothing is easier to teach than historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.
- My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest…
- History is only a value of relation.
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