Quotes About History

If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness as a genetically influenced disorder of brain chemistry--has been a smashing success. Freud's ideas, which dominated the history of psychiatry for the past half century, are now vanishing like the last snows of winter.

I was thinking that a life is just the history of what we give our attention to,' said Patrick. 'The rest is packaging.

Rome wasn't deconstructed in a day.

It is characteristic of all extension systems to be treated as distinct and separate from the user and to take on an identity of their own. Religions, philosophies, literature, and art illustrate this. After a time, the extended system accretes to itself a past and a history as well as a body of knowledge and skills that can be learned. Such systems can be studied and appreciated as entities in themselves.

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

The chief surely knows that his job is to be on the right side of the Constitution, blatherings about the 'wrong side of history' are an appeal to intellectual cowardice. – Edward Whelan

No, no guns, they won't get us anywhere. I tried that when I was young and it's a useless interim game. Use guns and you're no better than the Black and Tans and that's not good enough.

The three and twentieth of March [1623] [The Reader should remember that the English year began on the 25th March]

Some of our people that are dead took the original of their death here.

In records that defy the tooth of time.

This is not to say that history repeats itself. Time is not a carousel on which we might, next time around, snatch the brass ring by being better prepared. Rather we see the past as flowing powerfully through the present and think that charting historical currents can enhance our ability to navigate them.

no one has ever gone from slavery to freedom with the slaveholders cheering them on

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

Whatever happens in the stock market to-day has happened before and will happen again.

It is a very old thing, this of noting the behavior of a stock and studying its past performances.

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

Now he [Lincoln] belongs to the ages.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

History is a mirror of society that shows its prosperities and tragedies; thus, learn from it since it is your trustworthy teacher.

History is your ancestors' outcome of the past; celebrate or compensate.

No one can emulate such film, video, history, book, and whatever else as its memories can reflect and mirror exactly from its childhood until now.

Not writing means; not history remains; whereas, writing means; disclosing and unmasking the characters' reality.

Only three visionary and golden figures were born on the soil of present Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, and Muhammad Iqbal, the national poet, philosopher, and the thinker of Pakistan and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the founder of the constitution and the hero of atomic energy.