Quotes About History

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

One key lesson of history is that virtually anything, including afternoon or evening thundershowers, causes Germany to invade Belgium.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history.

Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.

If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.

Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.

Hopefully one day I can be up there with Peyton in terms of history.