History Quote by Hendrik Willem van Loon

““History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward””

Hendrik Willem van Loon

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Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

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An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.

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Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

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“On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage…

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In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

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In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as…

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The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions…

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High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high…

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A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

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The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

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Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

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“The history of man is the record of a hungry creature in search of food. Wherever food was plentiful, thither man has travelled to…

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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

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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

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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

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In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will…

Frederick Buechner

The NBA is my history.

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History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the…

Angela Merkel

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

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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

Jean Cocteau

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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

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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

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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 community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point.

Edgar Mitchell