Top 1200 Good History Quotes & Sayings - Page 13
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Last updated on November 14, 2024.
There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
We all know that history cannot be undone. But let me assure you that we Austrians know that, because of our history, we have a great responsibility.
The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.
You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.
If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that’s such a rare gift. It’s underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.
Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.
I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.
Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.
Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.
You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.
History will find some of you but not all of you. Because you can't know which of you will make history, you must do your best to be ready.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.
Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things.
God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.
The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.
From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.
Let this be our time in history so that someday we can tell our children and grandchildren that we were there, that we changed the course of history for the better.
I'm glad that we have a history at all and that we can talk about feminist history. But I do think that it doesn't really pay attention to the complexity and the nuance that is feminist thought.
The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.
I think school is so important. I was good student. A rebel, but I did well in my studies. I don't close myself to anything. I liked reading and I still love learning. I loved history and German.
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.
Anytime we're talking about Thurgood Marshall, that's a good thing, I think, because it gives us an opportunity to go back, look at the history, and recognize what his contributions were.
I thought Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off.
All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.
I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.
Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.
Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation, working on soccer skills.
Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.
Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.
Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets.
History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
It is important never to forget our history, but parts of our history are more appropriately displayed in museums, not on government property.
Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.
Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.
History has always fascinated me. Coming from a family that has it's own regal history, I always like places that have a rich past.
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
If you don't know your history, you don't have an idea how you channel things in your life. Knowing that history, I was able to fulfil my goals.
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.
If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.
If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
I thought Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off.
Life is not at all what you might think it to be
A simple tale where each thing has its history
It's much more than its scuffle and anything goes
Both evil and good, subject to the same laws.
History is delusional. Not just an illusion, it's a delusion. America is this giant country, so it has these big delusions, and history is where delusions play out.
History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history.
The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
The history of drawing is a history of 'realities'. Every age has its own conceptions, held to be true at that time, believed to be true for all times.
One of the problems in the Ukrainian crisis is that very few Westerners know their history, or if they know it, what they learn is what we call the Russian version of history.
McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.
I'm interested in the history of the soul: the everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits - or disdains.
One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.
Let's face it: there aren't a lot of black superheroes. So, in dealing with a black superhero, you're going to deal with ugly history and the beauty of history.
If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.
The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.
There’s no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help others.
