History Quotes
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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 truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history.
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Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
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When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity.
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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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Fashion is an expression of a time, of a place, of history. It's putting things into context.
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The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.
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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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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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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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Work hard, have fun and make history.
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I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
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History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.
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Most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.
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War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
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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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Our earth was just one thin example of what was possible, and because it was possible, this history was inevitable.
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Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study of ultimate (evolutionary) causes, the subject of natural history.
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Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.
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Whatever I was going into, whether it was going to be chorus or history or astronomy or whatever, do it right. Be a professional. Don't just do a half baked job. Do everything correctly. Get down. Learn the details of what you're going to do.
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History isn't a seesaw. If you have a really bad regime on one side, the actions on the other side don't automatically become good. It doesn't work that way.
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You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.
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Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be what it is if Bach, Beethoven and Wagner had never lived. The world as we know it is the product of its geniuses-and there may be evil as well as beneficent genius-and to deny that fact, is to stultify all history, whether it be that of the intellectual or the economic world.
