History Quote by Larry Niven

Don't give up be strong

— Derrick Hernandez

I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future,…

— Peter Gay

The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur…

— Denis Donoghue

I learned from books that I picked up. That was something that just came out of nowhere but continued to be an attraction. So…

— Paul Smith

I can simply say that I feel spontaneously attracted by everything that is beautiful... It comes from the unconscious and not from my knowledge...…

— Leni Riefenstahl

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

Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to…

— G. M. Trevelyan

I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in…

— Niall Ferguson

If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . .…

— Paul Copan

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

— Edmund Burke

Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],…

— Abraham Lincoln