Top 1200 Ancient History Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.

First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race.

I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with.

Art lives and dies in the unique heart of he who carries it, just as all feelings only live and expand in the souls of those who feel them. There is no history of art -- there is the history of artists.

You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the contrary history has a natural continuity which must be respected

When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying

I mean it's always good to document your history. 'Cos for some strange reason black history has a tendency of getting lost. So I think it's beautiful to have the ability to document it.

Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.

I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

The WWE Championship is the greatest championship in the history of this sport. It has the most history of anything.

You frantically want to make a mark on the history of humanity? You, King of the Fools! In the very distant future, there shall be no history; there shall remain not even a single trace of anything!

If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

My personal history, along with the history of many black people in this country, is rife with trauma born out of anti-black policies aided and facilitated by presidents and their administrations.

You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.

History never really says goodbye. History says, see you later.

Well, we have nothing to hide. Our history is an open book. They may find what they are looking for, but the fact is the history of the church is clear and open and leads to faith and strength and virtues.

History is like Santa Claus: a language construction. We have some registers about the existence of Santa and history - the presents under the tree, the archives - but none have really seen them.

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.

Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda.

I was with the former president for over 54 years. I don't regret that; I feel very proud. It was necessary. It is history. Each step where we worked together was a privilege, and in terms of history, that was necessary.

What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands at the seashore, constantly blown this way or that by the slightest breeze. History would be constantly changing every time someone spun the dial of a time machine and blundered his or her way into the past. History, as we know it, would be impossible. It would cease to exist.

Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

In ancient times they sacrificed the virgins. Men were not about to sacrifice the sluts!

Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or been modified by it, and you have the history of another world and of another race.

I got history solidly under my belt, reading Russian history and biographies. I couldn't change the facts. I could only play with how the people might have responded to the facts of their lives.

"Difficulty" is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are.

The history of lead is a history of neglect. It's a history of decisions on our part not to address the broad implications of what we did to ourselves during the industrial revolution and in the first part of the century when our cities expanded broadly, when we built our housing and we began to depend upon lead as a mainstay of our new industrial culture. We put this stuff in even though we knew it was dangerous, we knew it was going to hurt kids.

History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'

The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. History recks nothing of human logic

I like all of the books I work on to be ones you can pick up without knowing the entire history of the character, because then, not only can you enjoy it as is, but it encourages you to look into the history of that character and their world.

We already have our history with Joanna in Muay Thai and we can start our history in MMA.

Throughout history we have seen the tyranny of the powerful over the less powerful - think of the history of colonialism or of slavery - and the tragic mistakes made when important information was not "heard" or valued.

I am trying to reach people who would not normally head for the history section of a book shop or a library to try to show that history would be as interesting and thrilling as a novel.

That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.

As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not simply the history of photography, who have shaped important directions for the future.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a story without an argument fades into antiquarianism; an argument without a story risks pedantry. Writing history requires empathy, inquiry, and debate. It requires forswearing condescension, cant, and nostalgia. The past isn’t quaint. Much of it, in fact, is bleak.

I have always been an amateur history buff, and I've been fascinated by legal history.

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

Raft Point is among the greatest examples of ancient indigenous art we know of.

For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.

To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

History will look back, and I'm fully prepared to accept any mistakes that history judges to my administration, because the president makes the decisions, the president has to take the responsibility.

The South is about the abundance, beauty, and richness of Southern culture, but also its dark underside. The history of Southern food reflects the history of slavery, of poverty, of the negotiation of power.

It's important to interrogate history, it's important to document history, because as a society we need constant reminders of the things that we've done in the past in the hope we can stop repeating these horrible lessons.

There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent

Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.

I love history. Everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.