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History Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
Elie Wiesel
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Robert Penn Warren
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.




Kenneth Clark
Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.
Anonymous
History is just one bloody thing after another.
Steve Maraboli | History Quotes
Don't let your history interfere with your destiny.
Robert A. Heinlein
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is properly no history; only biography.
Robert Anton Wilson
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
Romain Gary
There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.
Gustavo Gutierrez | History Quotes
The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history.




Thomas L. Friedman
The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A page of history is worth a volume of logic.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
Frank Zappa
The things that were happening in 1955 were cosmic ... in terms of music history.
Joan Robinson | History Quotes
There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.
Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Emil Cioran
That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.
Bob Dylan
I'd throw all the guns and the tanks in the sea, for they are mistakes of a past history.
Nayef Al-Rodan
The history of human civilisation is a history of mutual borrowings.


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