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History Quotes by Jill Lepore
- History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what…
- The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.
- History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a story…
- Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the Ecton churchyard, but…
- The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between…
- No nation has a single history, no people a single song.
- Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.
- History is only written from what remains.
- Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
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