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History Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or…
- I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as…
- Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.
- Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground,…
- I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but…
- There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.
- I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east…
- Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
- It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
- Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.
- The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and…
- Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd,…
- We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracingthe steps of the race; we go westward as into the…
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