Quotes About History

To go again over the history of the struggle of resistance ... and to think 'Where are all these people today Where is the KGB' is very inspiring

People have different ways of interpreting history.

All revolutions in history have obstacles.

It is a matter of immense pride that never in history has there been a complaint against the Indian community from any society in the World. These values aren't small!

In history, the millions win; that is democracy.

All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.

How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it.

Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.

It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.

Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

Standing Rock is a moment in history. We really have to grab it and go with it.

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.