Quotes About History

It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. But don't eat the macaroni pies.

[Andrea De Cesaris is] the man who has won more Grands Prix than anybody else in the history of Grand Prix racing without actually winning one of them.

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

Before judging a thin man, one must get some information. Perhaps he was once fat.

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men.

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.