Quotes About History

The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.

From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history.

Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

How many sepoys were brought by the Musalmans? How many Englishmen are there? Where, except in India, can be had millions of men who will cut the throats of their own fathers and brothers for six rupees? Sixty millions of Musalmans in seven hundred years of Mohammedan rule, and two millions of Christians in one hundred years of Christian rule - what makes it so?

all great incarnations and prophets are such men; that they reached perfection in this one life. We have had such men at all periods of the world's history and at all times. Quite recently, there was such a man who lived the life of the whole human race and reached the end — even in this life. Even this hastening of the growth must be under laws.

Now the history of the world shows that these two dreams — that of a universal political Empire and that of a universal religious Empire — have been long before mankind, but that again and again the plans of the greatest conquerors had been frustrated by the splitting up of his territories before he could conquer only a little part of the earth; and similarly every religion has been split into sects before it was fairly out of its cradle. Yet

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.

Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.

For what are most of our stories but cartoon versions of the past? Our personal history is the well-worn version of ourselves we've settled for, in which we come across as pitiful stick figures, "bored to death with ourselves and with the world," as don Juan said.

It was easy to see that I was recreating my painful history every time I talked about it.

The whole world is a gigantic legacy. Imagine having to start afresh each generation: who would invent the wheel, devise the lever, construct the alphabet and multiplication table? I could not; could you?

That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

What would the world do without tea? - how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave-Dakota Indian proverb

Architecture's history of interaction with other mediums is a long and complex story of intimacy and separation, power and control, but it is also a history that has repeatedly played a central role in the discipline's advancement.

The Book of Latina Women celebrates stories of the spirit and the resiliency of Latinas whose contributions have shaped history. Though the term Latina is relatively new, the spirit that goes with it carries an important legacy. For centuries, Latina women have inspired us beyond words. Their actions have sparked great change, and their spirit has made its mark on our contemporary world.

Hopes of putting their sad history behind them was bound to be bittersweet.