Quotes About History

I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is - my point is, there's a strong will for democracy.

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing.

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

History is an accumulation of error.

Mandela means a lot to the world. He's something special. There's only a few people in the history of mankind with that kind of charisma.

Ah, Fist, it's the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

Cut, Cap and Balance is worst legislation in history.

According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of the Black Plague, their biggest complaint had been rotten "food".

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were.

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.

Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge was deciding which stories to tell.

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.

I don't worry about long-term history. I won't be around to read it.