Quotes About History

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.

Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.

One must overcome history by dogma.

The spirits are an age-old theme, a story from darkest history, and therefore a presentational anchor that can be used with many different magic tricks.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

Everybody knows we're entitled to one Jerusalem. History reveals very simply that this is our land from the days of the Bible.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom.

The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.

History is a story written by the finger of God.

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.