History Quotes

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

Lech Walesa

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Luigi Pirandello

Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.

Jodi Picoult

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Margaret Thatcher

In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.

Albert Camus

My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.

Thomas Hardy

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.

Stephen Jay Gould

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

Jackson Browne

There is properly no history; only biography.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was thinking of 'duh?' in the sense of 'a sentence containing several words more than three letters long, and possibly requiring general knowledge or a sense of history that extends past last Tuesday, has been used in my presence.

Terry Pratchett

Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.

Tony Kushner

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

Mike Tyson

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Karl Marx

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

Ben Stein

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

George Bernard Shaw

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

Rashida Jones

If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

David Suzuki

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

William Hazlitt

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

Vladimir Putin

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

William Hague