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History Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of…
- A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be…
- The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all…
- There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
- If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives…
- If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!
- I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and…
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