Quotes About History

The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The age of chivalry has gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

He was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself.

Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

I'm inclined to think,' said Fen, 'that neither opposing nor advocating change makes much difference to the sum total of human misery. History suggests that it stays constant in quantity, if not in kind. Science rids us of plague but endows us with the atom bomb. Humanitarianism rids us of sweated labour but offers us the horrors of political agitation in its place. There's a choice of evils, but that's all.

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.

The public is practically unaware of the overwhelming responsibility carried by the Vatican and its Jesuits in the start of the two world wars—a situation which may be explained in part by the gigantic finances at the disposition of the Vatican and its Jesuits, giving them power in so many spheres, especially since the last conflict.

we forget to appreciate what it meant for people to escape from the wages of medieval times to incomes two or three times the medieval level, as most people in Britain, America, France, and the German lands came to enjoy in the 19th century.

Output per worker in England did not increase at all between 1500 and 1800, according to the estimates by Angus Maddison in his 2006 volume The World Economy, a trusted source.

I like to read great books not because I'm hoping to imitate them but because I want to remind myself how good you have to be to be any good at all. We won't be read in the light of other writers in our zip code or decade but as we compare to Proust, Joyce, and Nabokov. History has set the bar very high, and one must jump over it, not do the limbo under it.

The cruellest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth has been to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since being shot by Booth was to have fallen into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

phase, before the restoration of epaulettes. And in Grant there was a genuine diffidence.

The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

Whoever heard of a woman having to enter her house past a row of guns! These weren't Indian days—pioneer scalping days.

De pronto ha advertido que la historia de México y su historia personal tienen en común un aspecto en el que nunca había reparado: ambas son una larga galería de fantasmas.

No solo nos marca la familia en la que nacemos, sino también el momento que vive esa familia cuando nacemos.

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.

Reason is the newest and rarest thing in human life, the most delicate child of human history.