Quotes About History

History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.

Jesus stands absolutely alone in history; in teaching, in example, in character, an exception, a marvel, and He is Himself the evidence of Christianity.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

Human history is a Gaian dream.

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!