Quotes About History

But then history does not only consist of documents.

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it.

The lesson of history is that no one learns.

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

If you don't learn about each other, you do not understand each other, and you don't hide warts and all, both sides, then you're forever going to repeat history.

I feel reinvigorated, having fresh energy and fresh ideas, and merging that with the history I have.

There is no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say: 'Victory was achieved by the United States of America for the good of the world.'

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

My deep relations with fashion started in Paris in 1980s, when I was appointed head of The Fashion History course at French Esmod fashion school, the biggest and the best in those years in Paris.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.