Quotes About History

I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

That's the evergreen nature of a great song. They can be resurrected. They can be covered. They can find new relevance due to changing circumstances in history.

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Human nature in time is engraved in history.

There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.

It's possible to satisfy the needs of the inner life by an intimate communion with nature, or by knowledge of the past.

To preserve the past is to save the future...

Nature is increasingly the thematic focus of industrial heritage.

If you're looking for family entertainment, don't study history or prehistory.

History is a record of human nature in action.

Nature is relic of pre-human civilizations.

PHOTOGRAPHY is the best way, where you can SAVE your sweet PAST.

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

Homeland of patience, land of the Russian people.

People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.