History Quotes

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.

Francis Bacon

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Francis Bacon

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

Steven Spielberg

I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.

Twyla Tharp

History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided.

Konrad Adenauer

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

Jonathan Safran Foer

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

John Le Carr

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

Andrew Weil

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

Sir Winston Churchill

She was so ugly that when two men broke into her apartment and she yelled rape they yelled nooooooo

Rodney Dangerfield

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

Oliver Cromwell

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Elphaba, where I'm from, we believe all sorts of things that aren't true. We call it--- history.

Winnie Holzman, Wicked (the musi

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

Joseph Stalin

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Samuel Butler

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

George S. Patton

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Henry Ward Beecher