Quotes About History

If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.

Longing on a large scale makes history.

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.

The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

Donald Trump's fought maybe the greatest political machine in the history of the world.

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de

I'm working on restoring a cabinet over the obstruction of Senate Democrats. It will be one of the great cabinets ever assembled in American history.

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.

The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.

Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.

In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples.

As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history.