History Quote by George Santayana Download Open image “History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.” — George Santayana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Needs Writing
“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Our nation's history cannot be undone. And we should not try to rewrite it either. — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it. — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
“History has been written, but it has not always been right or complete.” — Toi Thomas Copy Share Image
To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a… — George Santayana 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
