History Quote by Terry Nardin Download Open image ““Memoirs, as everyone knows, make bad history.”” — Terry Nardin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“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 not a bad thing. It just reminds us what to do and what not to do in the future.” — Phil MItchell Copy Share Image
“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of… — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
“History can be created, but recreating it can ruin its originality.” — priyanka gera Copy Share Image
“If we had the power to rewrite our histories, what stories would we tell?” — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
“practices are displayed only in performances: a practice is the trace, the residue, of its performances. Practices are not "stable compositions of easily recognized… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“No oak trees without acorns' may be a formally true proposition, but that this acorn did in fact produce this oak tree, there and… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“Empirical reality becomes nature when we view it with respect to its universal characteristics; it becomes history when we view it as particular and… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“Who I am depends not only on what I believe but on the beliefs embedded in the practices of the various communities to which… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“the issue in historical explanation is to explain the character and not the mere occurrence of events. A historical event is not an atomic,… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“In Oakeshott's view, ideas like natural law, fundamental values, basic rights, and "justice as fairness" are detrimental to the rule of law: "more often… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.” — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“The degeneration of conversation into monologue, dogmatic assertion, is barbarism.” — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“Conversation itself has rules, which is why the conversationalist who insists that others must speak his language is a boor. To have a voice… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“The demand for moral uniformity is more often practical than theoretical, a demand for moral certainty where none is possible. It is, for Oakeshott,… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“it is the historian's job to find coherence in the past, nothing in history can be regarded as accidental. For accident-mere chance or "fortune"-explains… — Terry Nardin 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
