Quotes About History

No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for "Before Coffee.

You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.

You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts.

You might, for example, be interested to know that the word "prestigious" is derived from the Latin praestigiae, which means "conjuror's tricks." Isn't that interesting? This word that we use to mean honorable and esteemed has its beginnings in a word that has everything to do with illusion, deception, and trickery.

Jak ?íkám, romantická láska existovala i d?ív než v 12. století, ale neidealizovala se a p?íb?h Parida a Heleny je skv?lý p?íklad. Láska jim p?inesla jen prchavé št?stí, ale celkov? to byla katastrofa.

History is a record of destruction. One must always make room for the next ephemeral crystal.

History teaches that evil at its most exalted is merely a wretched excess of good.

And history teaches that what a culture can't assimilate it destroys

Mr. Michaelson went on teaching the class then, as if history was the most important thing in the world, and even though she didn't want to, Lucy actually heard some of what he said.

Any reader unable to distinguish between the historical and fictional elements of the plot is urged to seek professional help as quickly as possible.

He'd read that rage remained forever in a place that had once nurtured it. "The spirit of the place.

Some experts even say the idea of India is wrong; it is not more than a leftover patchwork of disparate kingdoms created by the British.

Some experts even say the idea of India is wrong;

In China our professional artists or craftsman used to carve large pieces of white ivory into models of famous buildings, such as the Peking Palace or the Temple of Heaven, with streets and people to the minutest detail. I have been fortunate enough to see a few of theses, and the snow-covered Oxford High, with its yellow stone, resembled one of these exquisite ivory carvings, yellowed with age. I was happy to have discovered such affinity between Oxford and Ancient China.

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.

For the story — from Rumpelstiltskin to War and Peace — is one of the basic tools invented by the mind of man, for the purpose of gaining understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

Those who tell the stories rule the world.

Well, the good old days with most of us was when we didn't earn enough to pay an income tax.

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

And it is often in the past that the secret of the future lies!

The past is not a package one can lay away.

And why should I rekindle these smoking embers? Why call up from their casements the ghosts of the dead?