Reading History Quotes

Reading History Quote of the day

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.

As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history books didn't teach us about ourselves.

Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.

I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time.

I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture.

When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries.

On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid of.

I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the lessons globally of what happened with people.

To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself.

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.

We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.

A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its story.

What must not be read must not be written.

Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.""Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?""How else? Though not till I'm done reading.