Top 1200 Written History Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

Happy is the day whose history is not written down.

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

History is not written in the interests of morality.

History written by the victims trickles down in the form of folklore.

Scars are stories, history written on the body

History is neither written nor made without love or hate.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Oddly, since by now I've written quite a lot on early modern philosophers, I didn't care for the history of philosophy, which I thought dull and obscure, until I got a minor job writing articles for a children's encyclopedia in the history of science and began to make connections between science and philosophy.

History is a story written by the finger of God.

I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter has been preserved; and of each page, only here and there a few lines.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.

Songs are often written by people who are witnesses to history.

The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.

The whole history of the 20th century can be written in an utterly fascinating way.

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they recounted of the history of others. Both were written down in the books called the Old Testament, [the Torah] the sacred writings of the Jewish people ... They were the first to arrive at an abstract notion of God and to forbid his representation by images. No other people has produced a greater historical impact from such comparatively insignificant origins and resources.

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

I like to go back over history and check out what people have written and whether I agree with it or not.

In history there's what's written down and there's what actually happened.

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.

History is written by those who hang heroes.

History is written by the dreamers, not the doubters.

I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history, Mid-Atlantic history is national history. We're still suffering from that.

Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it, and women have really been in those quieter moments at the edge of history. But, really, they're the ones who are turning the cogs and the wheels and allowing things like the peace process to happen.

The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels.

I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches and beside dying fires in one-room houses, a history of great-grandparents and of slavery and of the days following slavery; of those who lived still not free, yet who would not let their spirits be enslaved.

The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

History, when rightly written, is but a record of providence; and he who would read history rightly, must read it with his eyes constantly fixed on the hand of God. This statement of a nineteenth-century historian sums up the responsibility of the Christian teacher of history, for he who would teach history or any subject matter rightly, must teach it with his eyes constantly fixed on the hand of God.

No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.

Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly understood by most people.

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history. . . . All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written

The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed?

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

History is only written from what remains.

History is not what happened but what is written down

When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was a perception that women weren't important. And it's true. Women were seen historically as far inferior to men.

I consider Zidane to be an amazing player who has written football history.

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

I believe that history is written by the victors, but what about the vanquished? They also have a story to tell.

I am particularly fond of [Emmanuel Mendes da Costa's] Natural History of Fossils because this treatise, more than any other work written in English, records a short episode expressing one of the grand false starts in the history of natural science and nothing can be quite so informative and instructive as a juicy mistake.

Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them.

White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings.

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

History gets written by the winners.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. Jesus belonged to the race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. One man was true to what is in you and me. He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man.

The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.

The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when the former is the result of the observations of a mature mind upon itself, and has been written without any egotistical desire of arousing sympathy or astonishment. Rousseau's Confessions has precisely this defect – he read it to his friends.