Quotes About History

The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.

History has shown us that 'Get Things Done' is mindless liberal code for passing ineffective legislation and expanding government for government's sake.

His glory Jesus Christ does not consist in beingplaced without the confines of history; a more real worship is paid to him, by showing that the whole of history is incomprehensible without him.

History is as much an art as a science.

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

News is history shot on the wing.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

The Cheyenne Indians: their history and lifeways : edited and illustrated

Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached.

The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.