History Quote by Robert A. Nisbet

Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.

— Len Deighton

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness.”

— James C. Malin

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.

— Diana Palmer

“The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.”

— Alan Beattie

My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Let us remember, for the progressive, historical progress is said to be a process of never-ending cultural and societal adjustments intended to address the…

— Mark R. Levin

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“History is a slippery business; the past is not a constant but a landscape that mutates according to argument and opinion.”

— Penelope Lively

“Nothing in the study of history is cheaper than the exercise of unearned self-righteousness that derives from nothing more virtuous than ordinary hindsight.”

— Edwin Yoder

Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are…

— Anonymous

“A nation that fails to recognize and appreciate history is destined for decay.”

— Mark Mortensen