Top History Quotes

I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached.

Before Sutter, native people had heeded the cycle of the seasons, time was infinite, and life's rhythms were unchanging. Now, for at least part of their lives, some Indians were wedded to a concept th...

History Definition

(n.) A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a legislative bill.

(n.) A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance; -- distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory.

(v. t.) To narrate or record.

If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who came within speech of him.

Film photography will always be superior to digital - because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you've got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and m...

To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down...

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

When we think carefully about the past, we get to know and understand not just what happened in the past but what really went into things that happened in the past.

The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it.

If all you are looking for is a miracle you are wide open to follow the antichrist and the false prophets because they are going to have a big league of signs and wonders ministry.If signs and wonders...

Poezję pisze się łzami, powieść krwią, a historię rozczarowaniem.

Individuals make history, but it's also a collective thing, a wave that people ride in their time, a wave made of individual actions. So ultimately history is another particle/wave duality that no one...

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis

If the Nazis are Socialists simply because they call themselves Socialists, then North Korea really is a Democratic Republic.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that...

My book "Bamboo Walls" is forever because the Djojobojo Prophecy is timeless!

I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin TowersFrom Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles