History Quote by Henry Steele Commager Download Open image “History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!” — Henry Steele Commager ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Important Memories Memory Organization Organized
One of the things important about history is to remember the true history. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is… — Joe Kaeser Copy Share Image
Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
History is important because it teaches us about past. And by learning about the past, ypu come to understand the present, so that you… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
A lot of people would say history is important because it helps us to predict the future. I don't think that it does particularly.… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
“A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices changed sharply,… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it… — Henry Steele Commager 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