Us History Quotes

The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.

The tears of God are the meaning of history

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

People aren’t photographing for history any more. It’s for immediate gratification. If you’re photographing to share an image, you’re not photographing to keep it.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.

The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic.

I think America is amazing for its landscape and its history. California is beautiful, New York is beautiful, but when you're a gypsy at heart, it probably suits you to be traveling.

It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages.

History breaks down into images, not into stories.

A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.

In instances in history, civil disobedience has been appropriate and useful.

I actually got really interested in traveling to India after studying yoga. I have this wanderlust and don't like doing things without knowing about the history.

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It's a real thing. It's not always referring to ancient history.

Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.

If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.

One of the best ways to celebrate righteous history is to make more of it, make more righteous history!

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.

I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by insult and applied degradation of them.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

In terms of history and sports, I don't think people will forget.

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve to be remembered.

From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

The past has always been the handmaid of authority.

History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.