Quotes About History

History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.

I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

I don't know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings

It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.

History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or the Federal Reserve.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.

America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.

I'll leave here with my head held high and with confidence that history will judge my time here.

Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.