Us History Quotes
The day history will die and lose its essence with time, memories will not only die, but they shall also surely be forgotten with time!
you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, “a distillation of rumor, ” or, as Napoleon said, “a set of lies generally agreed upon
How history negotiates its terms and collects its dues from those who break its laws.
History will only remember those that remembered it and the best way to make history is to read history
Reconstructing the past is rather like translating poetry. It can be done, but never exactly.
...we can endure neither our vices nor the remedies needed to cure them.
All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.
The lessons of past is critical for teachings in present. And experience in the future.
I had a sudden notion of why history is such a mess: humans do not live long enough. We only learn from experience and have no time to use it in a continuous and sensible way.
The more history I learn, the more the world fills up with stories.
History is written by the victors. Legends are woven by the people. Writers fantasize. Only death is certain."To Die for One's Country is Glorious, " p. 131
A rich and mature life involves opening up to a wider world. If we base our understanding of life only on what we personally experience, we are impoverished indeed.
History is the business of identifying momentous events from the comfort of a high-back chair.
History tended to repeat itself. Why should her past be any different?
A history has not been made by you.History made you.The Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansThe Religion Of The Blue CircleAmen
Time is a strange storyteller. It writes, erases and rewrites endlessly. Things change, places and people become unrecognizable, but stories are repeated endlessly
He (Frederick II) famously describe Poland as an 'artichoke, ready to be consumed leaf by leaf
If she opened the closet with her skeletons, they might drag her in with them.
It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made.
However much one lacks piety, the atmosphere in a graveyard encourages quiet reflection.
Fascinated by the great symbols of the collective history, I use them as an alphabet to communicate.
A person may know things by somebody else's experience but a person will always learn things by his own personal experience.
If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
It's nice to think that the weirdos get to decide what matters about the past, since it's the weirdos who care the most.
Without trust there's no cooperation. And without cooperation there's no progress. History stops.
To gain an understanding of the mind leads on to an appreciation of what it means to be human.
You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!
To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught.
Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds.
In the history of man, there has been and always will be more horses' asses than horses.
Moment by moment, in life's winter life frozeEchoing a history of blues, a milestone rose
History is us squinting into the past, mistaking millions of tiny vibrations in all directions for unified, unidirectional movements by entire civilizations.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of ancestors' by the records of history?
The economists have us well along the way of the greatest mass extinction event in human history.