Quotes About History

Even a quick reading of Rizal's trial will prove that those who take Constantino's works uncritically are likewise guilty of Veneration Without Understanding. Since there is so much fiction and faction in history it is always essential to return to the sources.

Filipinos have an aversion to blank walls.

It is memory that has made the person I am today. Without memory we cannot form relationships, we cannot know who we are, we cannot forge our identities. The same is true for history.

It is one thing to know the past, but knowing what to do with it is something else. Our aim should be to be liberated from our history.

If there was anyone ma-porma during the Fil-American War, it was Heneral Goyo.

History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Phonograph - An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.

There's nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know.

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

No hay nada nuevo bajo el sol, pero hay muchas cosas viejas que nosotros no sabemos.

History does not forbid us to hope. But it forbids us to rely upon numbers; they will be against us. If history teaches anything worth learning it teaches that the majority of mankind is neither good nor wise. When government is founded upon the public conscience and the public intelligence the stability of states is a dream.

REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Specifically, in American history, the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch. Revolutions are usually accompanied by a considerable effusion of blood, but are accounted worth it—this appraisement being made by beneficiaries whose blood had not the mischance to be shed.

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

If you want to know a country, read its writers.

A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.

This was a place of learning, and wonder, and great beauty.' 'Time has not been kind to the place.' 'Time is never kind.

One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once.

A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them. Criminals made heroes by colossal success.

No one cares about the past any more," he whispered. "They don't see that you can't have a future without a past.

It is easy to speak of the past, impossible to go there.

A sword has a voice.

Hay que aprender las lecciones de la historia. Los errores del pasado deben cometerse una sola vez —hizo una breve pausa y luego añadió—. A menos que no haya otro remedio.