Quotes About History

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

Ah, yes, choice. I chose to let my ghosts stay in past. Past is history you know. Living is now. I sat. I breathed. I let past go. I let future go. I am. That is all.

You can't make history going incognito.

Let me be one of the people who writes their life history, not with ink, with the colors of a caring heart.

We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireNo we didn't light itBut we tried to fight it

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

If reason ruled the world would history even exist?

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.

Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth

The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

To build up a future, you have to know the past.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.

The only group of Atlanteans that was truly successful in transplanting their knowledge to a new location was the group that landed in what is now Egypt.

This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples.