History Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Packs Play Tricks
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 is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living. — John Smith Copy Share Image
History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We… — Claude Bowers Copy Share Image
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing. — Sting Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire 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
