Quotes About History

To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to.

Romans is the most influential document in Christian history. It stimulated not only the Protestant Reformation but many other revivals throughout history.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging.

Past a certain point, all the dates grow hazy and confused, and the clarity of history becomes the fog of legend.

But whether the new would follow the course which the old had followed, that he did not know, and now at last he was almost certain that he did not even desire that the cycle should be repeated. He suddenly thought of all that had gone to build civilization--of slavery and conquest and war and oppression.

It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?" "If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

The North remembers.

The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.

But the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.

There are things to be learned even from the dead.

The air smelled of paper and dust and years.

No man can say with certainty what the future may hold. But perhaps, in knowing what has already transpired, we can all do our part to avoid the mistakes of our forebears, to emulate their successes, and to create a world more harmonious for our children and their children, for generations to come.

IT IS SAID with truth that every building is constructed stone by stone, and the same may be said of knowledge, extracted and compiled by many learned men, each of whom builds upon the works of those who preceded him. What one of them does not know is known to another, and little remains truly unknown if one seeks far enough.

No," said Bran. "I haven't. And if I have it doesn't matter. Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she'd told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

The sad truth of history has always been that the unreasoning masses follow the powerful, and not the wise.

So long as men remember the wrongs done to their forebears, no peace will ever last.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood." "Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?" "How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

Archmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again, he said.