Different Quote by Gustav Stresemann

We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand…

— Julian Barnes

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

— Arthur Koestler

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Perhaps I just feel safer with the history that’s been more or less agreed upon. Or perhaps it’s that same paradox again: the history…

— Julian Barnes

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.

— Jeanne C. Stein

I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence…

— Kenneth Clark

“What is history? What is its significance for humanity? Dr. J. H. Robinson gives us a precise answer: "Man's abject dependence on the past…

— Alfred Korzybski

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same…

— Friedrich Schiller

History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern…

— Edward Hallett Carr

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge