History Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.
We cannot help but see Socrates as the turning-point, the vortex of world history.
Texas is … "trotting" journalism, history in a hurry.
James Lipton: The most pompous arrogant failure in history.
Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
Don't let your history interfere with your destiny.
They (Thucydides and Xenophon) maintained the dignity of history.
Ah, who will write the history of what might have been?
Anything but history, for history must be false.
As they take eye for an eye until no one can see,
we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history.
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
One of the most extraordinary men in history.
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
Historia et scribitur ad narrandum non ad probandum.
Language is the archives of history...Language is fossil poetry.
8) History never repeats itself.
There is properly no history; only biography.
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
The only lesson history has taught us is that man has not yet learned anything from history.