Quotes About History

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

Even among the Japanese themselves, no scientific knowledge of their own history is yet possible; because the means of obtaining that knowledge have not yet been prepared,—though mountains of material have been collected.

the history of ethics and aesthetics,—all these and many other matters remain obscure.

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist anymore.

intend to correct details of the history that was compiled by my companions, the three Castilian

The Requerimiento and Its Interpreters" by Lewis Hanke in Revista de Historia de América.

Just by saying something was so, they believed that it was. I now know that these conquerors, like many before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it.

The present could never be untethered from the past, you couldn't understand one without the other.

The present could never be untethered from the past, you couldn't understand one without the other. "I heard," I said, and turned

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Like mold on books, grow myths on history.

She had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it.

All empires fail. They overreach, spread too thin, collect one enemy too many. They're gnawed at from within by corruption, greed, betrayal.

Here, captured between covers, was the history of the human imagination, and nothing had ever been more beautiful, or fearsome, or bizarre. Here were spells and curses and myths and legends, and Strange the dreamer had for so long fed his mind on them that if one could wander into it, they would discover a fantasia.

Here, captured between covers, was the history of the human imagination, and nothing had ever been more beautiful, or fearsome, or bizarre.

The only reason we've held them off this long is because we burned the library." "The library?

The books under the dust, they were stories. Folktales, fairy tales, myths, and legends. They spanned the whole world. They went back centuries, and longer.

as if hate were an atavism just waiting to resurface.

El viento transportaba recuerdos de magia, revolución y violines

Ziri nunca había oído nada parecido a esa historia de rastro de mapas del tesoro. Excepto, quizás, la historia del ángel que había entrado disfrazado en la ciudad con barrotes del enemigo para bailar con su dama.

Retail traders, adopt the strategy of Black Cobra aka Manu Manek Mundra to short sell everyday, 95 % of the time you will win because share price hardly rises as can be seen often in 50 years of stock market history

History is like a long, twisted joke. You never know when the punch line will come.

Three generations of women out on the front porch, four counting little Emily, trying to put words around a past and a future that could never be explained.

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!