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History Quotes by Jacques Barzun
- It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and…
- To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.
- I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties,…
- History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles…
- [T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.
- The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.
- I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
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