Action Quote by Tacitus

The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and…

— Tacitus

The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should…

— Anonymous

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals,…

— Abraham Lincoln

“A lot of what we know to be history isn’t…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more…

— Louise Penny

“History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly…

— Carl Sagan

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey

“What are the qualities of human greatness that create history? Every time, if we think far enough, it is an ability to look through…

— Jane Adams

Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.

— Dagobert D. Runes

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs…

— Carl Sagan

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

— Emile M. Cioran

The dignity of history.

— Henry Fielding

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

— Anonymous