Read History Quotes

25 Read History quotes by 22 unique authors

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
While we read history we make history. — George William Curtis
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
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
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
I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art. — Kristen Wiig
Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false. — Robert Walpole
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
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
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
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science. — Leslie Fiedler
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
If you think you have it tough, read history books. — Bill Maher
Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too. — Joan Rivers
I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination. — Jesse Ventura
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
The student is to read history actively not passively. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances — Robert E. Lee
But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You… — Ron Rash
One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history. — Unknown Author
My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man. — Barry Hannah
I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure. — Virginia Henley

Who Wrote These Read History Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 25 Read History Quotes as follows: