History Quotes
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History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.
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History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.
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I do get pissed off when I'm at some gay event, and there's a 25-year-old, and he has no idea who I am. And I say, 'You need to know more about your gay history, boy.' I think the younger generation takes it a little bit for granted.
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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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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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You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.
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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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History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.
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But when you walked out of that building, you created a new history that we have to live in now.
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If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
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We must wait for the official history of the Chinese Revolution to record in greater detail the invaluable work of our Japanese friends.
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At school, my favorite subjects were history, biology, chemistry, and physics. Especially the teaching in physics was excellent. Most of my understanding of it I got at high school, not at the university.
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The spirits are an age-old theme, a story from darkest history, and therefore a presentational anchor that can be used with many different magic tricks.
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... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song.
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Most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.
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I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.
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History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.
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In the history of sport in general, people stick around. Look at Shaun White and Lindsey Vonn just continue on, Olympic cycle after Olympic cycle; that is why they are famous.
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History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.
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It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir.
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In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.
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Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
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The internet has grown so tremendously fast in our society. It is the fastest communications technology in the history of the world. (It) grew from almost a dead stop in 1995 to having 80 million users in the United States alone in five years. Nothing has grown that fast.
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Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.
