Quotes About History

Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.

We are haunted houses of history. Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.

The future is nothing but a reflection of the present and the past.

I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future.

I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.

There are many examples of men in history who could give us a better mirror after which to pattern ourselves

All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

With your life, you are writing the history of the universe.

History is rich knowledge, In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. .

In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. History is rich knowledge.

Past is aipsom if you learned from the past.

Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant for dehumanizing the adversary?

If we forget the past, individually or as a culture, we lose knowledge that has already been gained, and we lose valuable tools by which our knowledge may grow.

I enjoy writing historical fiction because it allows me to live more lives than just this one.

We and future generations should never forget them, Always remember them.

Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.

The Gospel is not a theory the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.