History Quotes

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

Jean Chretien

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Desmond Tutu

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

Mahatma Gandhi

I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher

Went to a bar for a few drinks. The bartender asked what I wanted, surprise me I said, so he showed me a naked picture of my wife.

Rodney Dangerfield

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Samuel Johnson

Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

Novak Djokovic

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

H. G. Wells

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

James A. Froude

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

Monica Lewinsky

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

Kathryn Bigelow

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.

Tony Kushner

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

George Santayana

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

Nikki Giovanni

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

Charles Babbage

If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

Terry Eagleton

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

Anita Desai

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

Cat Stevens

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

Paul Simon