History Is Full Quotes

22 History Is Full quotes by 21 unique authors

As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges to… — Niccolo Machiavelli
To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full… — George Orwell
History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to… — Carl Sagan
History is full of surprises. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And because history never… — John D. Barrow
History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive. — Francis James Grimke
History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not. — Sara Sheridan
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is… — Sarah Vowell
History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force. — F. M. Powicke
In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could… — Manuel Puig
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. — William Landay
History is full of wrongs done the wife by legal robbery on the part of the husband. I hesitate not to assert that most of… — Matilda Joslyn Gage
Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that… — Umberto Eco
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. — Naguib Mahfouz
From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I… — Jon Meacham
As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination. — Elizabeth Kostova
History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true. — Edmund Snow Carpenter
All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development. — Hugh Miller
History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and… — Gary Ross
To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History… — George Orwell

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