Quotes About History

Today's headlines and history's judgement are not the same.

For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.

The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to their nation's gravest threats.

Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record.

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

The trouble with history is that there are too many people involved

As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.

The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

When history calls, history calls.