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History Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


While we read history we make history.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A page of history is worth a volume of logic.
Alexander Ovechkin
I always look forward to playing in Toronto because it's such a historic city when it comes to hockey.




Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one.
Lucian | History Quotes
The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.
Lucian
In history, nothing fabulous can be agreeable.
Eamon de Valera
All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.
Anonymous
History shows that life is the cheapest commodity.
David McNally (professor)
When history moves - really moves - it does so in great convulsive jolts.
Lajos Kossuth | History Quotes
History is the revelation of providence.




Gustavo Gutierrez
The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.
Robert Roy MacGregor
Honor made him a man. Courage made him a hero. History made him a Legend.
Ad Reinhardt
The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
Steve Maraboli
Don't let your history interfere with your destiny.
Jefferson Davis | History Quotes
Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
(Thomas) Woodrow Wilson
It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language is the archives of history...Language is fossil poetry.
Thomas Carlyle
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Karl Marx
To discover the various use of things is the work of history.


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