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History Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and…
- For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a…
- Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man,…
- Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area…
- Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural achievements, its industrial…
- ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize…
- No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most…
- Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to…
- Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords…
- Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded…
- What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
- Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study…
- Not only does the passage of time produce knowledge, it also produces ignorance... As the passage of time removes people with first-hand knowledge of an…
- Considering how often throughout history even intelligent people have been proved to be wrong, it is amazing that there are still people who are convinced…
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