Quotes About History

History is littered with dead good men

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

No man knows my history.

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

Mathematics is as old as Man.

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

What ever happened to freak shows? Back in the twenties when elephant man was born at least he had a job waiting for him.

What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?

Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper it's often a caricature that has become canonical.

The great men of antiquity were poor.

There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.

Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.

We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.