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History Quotes by Victor Hugo
- What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
- Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the…
- History has its truth; and so has legend hers.
- Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners…
- Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when…
- Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
- History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality.…
- The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle 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