History Quotes

When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

I think when we talk of craft we talk of a certain set of processes, whether that be clay of glass if jewelry or textiles, and we look back through history instantly.

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write good history.

The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.

History is neither written nor made without love or hate.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today!

[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history. The sad truth continues in our present day.

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.

Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'.

The men who make history have not time to write it.

I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States.

Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children

As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

What comes, is called.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it.

For a soul to come to Jesus, is the grandest event in its history.

History is a science, no more and no less.

The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.

History is not history unless it is the truth.

As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet.

I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.

Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King - He Died As He Lived.

I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

I have a history of saving animals. I started years ago with a cow.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

One of the most enduring friendships in history - dogs and their people, people and their dogs.

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