Quotes About History

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

That is why the center of our faith isn't just a book, but a history of Salvation, and above all, it's about a person: Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh.

We can't change history, but we can create the future.

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.

History is fables agreed upon.

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the most disliked and untrusted candidates for president in American history.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.

If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the authority of those who rule over us.

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

that's me. ancient history." [Poseidon to Paul]

There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.