History Quotes
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It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.
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Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
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When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.
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History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.
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I think music is best left for the listener to experience for themselves. My own description of it is only based on my own history, my own musical references and perspective. I like to avoid coloring things for people too much.
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My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
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We have never in the history of our country been in a situation where an adversary, a foreign power, is working so hard to influence the outcome of the election, and, believe me, they're not doing it to get me elected. They're doing it to try to influence the election for Donald Trump. Now, maybe because he has praised Putin, maybe because he says he agrees with a lot of what Putin wants to do, maybe because he wants to do business in Moscow, I don't know the reasons.
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The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.
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My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.
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What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth of electronic mass media back then.This is the birth of a new kind of personal media, where, instead of we're all watching one program, we're all watching each other. And the history of media makes it really clear. Whenever we have a big innovation, the first wave of stuff we do is pretty crummy. The printing press gave us pornography, cheap thrillers, and how-to books. Television gave us Newt Minow's vast wasteland.
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In contemporary society the typical lady is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.
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We are recipients of God's choicest blessings. We enjoy an abundance of material things beyond that enjoyed by any other nation in the history of the world; but unless we keep alive a realization that all these blessings come from God and are a part of our great spiritual heritage, they may crumble as ashes in our hands. "In nothing doth man offend God, or against none is his wrath kindled, save those who confess not his hand in all things and obey not his commandments."
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History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."
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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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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
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The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.
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He was really our last connection to a bygone time in the history of New Orleans.
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The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.
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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
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There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.
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History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.
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I had to make my history quick because there would be no future, merely a gossamer world blown about on the zeitgeist, till zeitgeist, the wind of the times, is blasted away by kamikaze, the wind of God.
