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E. O. Wilson | History Quotes
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
Gustavo Gutierrez
The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.
Abba Eban
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.




Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language is the archives of history...Language is fossil poetry.
James Barr
The problem here is not so much a historical one, more a terminological and philosophical one.
Mark Riebling | History Quotes
The history of the CIA brims with inquiries that cowed our spies and ruined their careers.
Thomas Hardy
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Greil Marcus
Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.
Joseph Stalin
History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.
Saki
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
William Pitt | History Quotes
It is a considerable fact in the history of the world, that he was for four years King of England.




Lucien Levy-Bruhl
The primitive mentality is a condition of the human mind, and not a stage in its historical development.
Steve Maraboli
Hiding from your history only shackles you to it. Instead, face it and free yourself.
Simon Bolivar
Jesus Christ, Don Quixote and I: three greatest fools of history.
Robert A. Heinlein
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — i.e., none to speak of.
Jorge Luis Borges | History Quotes
Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.
Len Deighton
Progress is man’s indifference to the lessons of history.
Jim Goad
Written history, like the missionary position, is an act executed from the top looking down.
Larry Niven
8) History never repeats itself.
Terry Eagleton
History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.


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