Quotes About History

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

History is history. What is done is done.

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

In my world, history comes down to language and art.

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

When you read the history of the human family, it slowly comes to you that all the world's oceans once fell as tears.

Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them.

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history.

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.