History Quote by Frederic William Maitland Download Open image “We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.” — Frederic William Maitland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Lays Lying Past Should Time
Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present. — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always. — Meredith Hall Copy Share Image
The past is what we have to learn about how to direct America to the future. — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the… — Frederic William Maitland Copy Share Image
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it. — Frederic William Maitland Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
