History Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Download Open image ““I am contented, happy, and consequently a bad historian.”” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“With sufficient perspective, nothing is good or bad. The historian who ventures to judge the past is writing journalism in another century.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“A historian ought to be exact, sincere and impartial; free from passion, unbiased by interest, fear, resentment or affection; and faithful to the truth,… — Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“I am not a properly trained historian. I am a lawyer by trade, and an inquisitive, practical woman by character.” — Liza Picard Copy Share Image
“No matter how good a President you are, if the historian is hostile to you, he will emphasize your errors and break down your… — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
“He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“If you want to live like a normal person, you are already part of history.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“History is a record of good choices and bad, the people who made them, and the consequences of those choices.” — John Edgell Copy Share Image
“History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.” — peter adejimi Copy Share Image
“Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.” — Daniel Nayeri Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
