Quotes About History

This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.

I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.

The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

History shows that anything conducive to our national stability is good.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.