History Quote by Van Wyck Brooks Download Open image “Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.” — Van Wyck Brooks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Inspirational Love Point of view Views
I don't look back on history. I want to look forward to the future. — Vincent Janssen Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past. — Peter Greenaway 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
History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
If you don't pay attention to history, you're destined to repeat it. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
History isn’t something you study. It’s something you should just know. — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many,… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in… — Van Wyck Brooks 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
