History Quotes - random
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.
Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.
These are the materials for reflection which history affords to those who choose to make use of them.
The things that were happening in 1955 were cosmic ... in terms of music history.
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
Language is the archives of history...Language is fossil poetry.
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.
History is written by the victors.
The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — i.e., none to speak of.
I have always been — I think any student of history almost inevitably is — a cheerful pessimist.
The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.
The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote . . . and me!
History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.
Historian — An unsuccessful novelist.
The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.