Quotes About History

We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.

I want to be remembered as part of the group of the greatest players ever.

Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non - violent revolution that transformed India.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.

DON'T FOR GET WHERE YOU CAME FROM SO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR GOING.

It is our past that defines who we are and gives us the courage to progress into the future without fear

Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday.

You can never know where you are going unless you know where you have been.

When I am old and addled I will make coronets like Cad, that have nothing to do with history, but represent the whimsy and cobwebs in my brain.

Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.

Bring the past, but only if you can build from it.

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.

Simply by living in this particular time and space, you're doing something nearly 100% of all other humans ever never could. Don't waste it.

The greatness of our destination will be lost without the memory of our beginning.

A time past is an essence gone

Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic.

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history

History was once the future, the future will create history.

For many centuries Christians also believed in the idea of reincarnation, and it wasn't until the Second Council of Constantinople in A.D. 553 that reincarnation was officially declared a heresy and mention of it was stricken from public texts. The powers that be didn't like the idea of people getting infinite chances to get it right, because then you wouldn't need the church to offer you salvation.

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

Americans need to learn from the Wilson era, that there is a connection between racist presidential leadership and like-minded public response.

History is furious debate informed by evidence and reason.