History Quotes
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History is a term for information about the past. When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human societies. The term history comes from the Greek "historic”, "an account of one's inquiries," and shares that etymology with the English word story. It is the branch of knowledge that records and researches past events. It may be the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history". It may also be a record or narrative description of past events.
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
Cicero |
Historical quotes describe the ancient and glorious past of something or somebody. These quotes enlighten the relevance of events happening in somebody's life in the past. These events may be positive or negative but they hold the importance because of something very important that might have happened.
Happy is the nation without a history.
Cesare di Bonesana Beccaria
History belongs to the winner.
Anon.
History is a pageant, not a philosophy.
Augustine Birrell
I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
Henry St. John Bolingbroke
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History's purchased page to call them great?
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
The dignity of history.
Henry St. John Bolingbroke
All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than once.
Thomas Carlyle
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature; his earliest expression of what can be called Thought.
Thomas Carlyle
And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
What more would you have? He has invented history.
Madame Marie Anne du Deffand
History, a distillation of rumor.
Thomas Carlyle
History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.
Henry Ford
The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.
Dionysius of Heraclea
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
Thomas Carlyle
Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin Disraeli
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.
Thomas Carlyle
There is properly no history, only biography.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
History is more or less bunk.
Henry Ford
The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
And read their history in a nation's eyes.
Thomas Gray
All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
Thomas Carlyle
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope
For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
J. W. Schopf
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
John W. Gardner The long historian of my country's woes.
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.
Philip Guedalla
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead.
Voltaire
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
Samuel Johnson
Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.
Thomas Carlyle
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
Voltaire
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
Leonard Louis Levinson
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
In a certain sense all men are historians.
Thomas Carlyle
Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.
Phillip Guedalla
We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.
Anon.
Give the historians something to write about.
Propertius
History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.
Phillip Guedala
Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.
Philip Howard
All history, of course, is the history of wars.
Penelope Lively
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Philip Elmer
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Sir Winston Churchill
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
George Santayana
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
Blaise Pascal
History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.
Anon.
The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.
Voltaire
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
Henry Adams
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain
Anecdotes are the gleaming toys of history. The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
Samuel Johnson
History: A distillation of rumor.
Thomas Carlyle
History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true.
Leo Tolstoy
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
Anon.
Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.
Mary Coleridge
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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