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History Quotes by Mark Twain
- India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand…
- Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
- History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head…
- It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.
- And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest…
- History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.
- Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!
- By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each…
- From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to…
- It's so damned humiliating.
- There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the…
- History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up…
- Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
- The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human…
- What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is…
- The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a…
- I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.
- The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
- History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.
- The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice
- History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes
- India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand…
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