History Quote by Pierre Bayle Download Open image “Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.” — Pierre Bayle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Human race Misfortunes Race
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say that he is quickening a false devotion almost all over the world, increasing the number of pilgrims to Mecca, multiplying the offerings to the most famous impostors, inducing men to build mosques for Mohammedan worship, causing the invention… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share
Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of stars which the ancients thought fit to call the Virgin, therefore, shall our women be barren, or have frequent miscarriages, or die old maids. I know of nothing which hangs so ill together! To offer such… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share
Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by which it… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to the interest… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I do not… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
“In the matters of religion, it is very hard to deceive a man, and very hard to undeceive him.” — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of… — Pierre Bayle 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 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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
