Read History Quotes
25 quotes by 22 authors
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During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There…
— Bill Maher
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While we read history we make history.
— George William Curtis
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Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a…
— David McCullough
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History, when rightly written, is but a record of providence; and he who would read history rightly, must read it with his eyes constantly fixed…
— D. A. Fisher
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If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read…
— Terry Pratchett
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I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.
— Kristen Wiig
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Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.
— Robert Walpole
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Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The…
— Donald Kagan
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I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's…
— Steve Zahn
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You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
— George Eliot
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All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
— Leslie Fiedler
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the…
— C.S. Lewis
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If you think you have it tough, read history books.
— Bill Maher
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Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.
— Joan Rivers
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I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.
— Jesse Ventura
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through…
— Oscar Wilde
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The student is to read history actively not passively.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think)…
— C.S. Lewis
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If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances
— Robert E. Lee
Who Wrote These Read History Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 25 Read History Quotes as follows: