History Quotes
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I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.
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I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem.
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Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
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Throughout history, the Poles have defended Europe. They would fight, and - between battles - they would eat and drink.
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History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.
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Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.
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If you look at the history of presidential memorials, it takes a long time to get them done.
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If we get to the point where we damage the full faith and credit of the United States, that would be the first default in history caused purely by insanity.
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This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.
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Canada is our country. It belongs to us and we belong to it. Let us join together, in our time, and make history once again.
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Our memory reaches back through recorded history. The memory book lies open, and the hand still writes.
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We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.
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There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.
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And this is why studying the history of psi is important. People have been reporting these phenomena for millennia and studying them for centuries. Human experiences that continue to be repeated throughout history and across cultures, are not due to ignorance or lack of critical thinking, and demand a serious explanation.
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If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural world. If historians could not quote, they would deem it a disastrous impediment to the communication of knowledge about the past. A luxury for physicists, quotation is a necessity for historians, indispensable to historiography.
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It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow product of the age long growth of the national life.
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I had carefully read the Balfour Declaration. I had familiarized myself with the history of the question of a Jewish homeland and the position of the British and the Arabs. I was skeptical, as I read over the whole record up to date, about some of the views and attitudes assumed by the 'striped-pants boys' in the State Department.
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The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only in the last twenty years or so that a definition of mathematics emerged on which most mathematicians agree: mathematics is the science of patterns.
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History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
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Throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.
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For me, it's more about being there, bearing witness to history, bearing witness to what's happening, what our country, the position our country is taking overseas. I want policy-makers to see the fruits of their decisions, basically, and to try and influence foreign policy.
