History Quotes - random
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.
The problem here is not so much a historical one, more a terminological and philosophical one.
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
Ideas shape the course of history.
I’ve been plowing in the sea. Jesus Christ, Don Quixote and I — the three great mavericks of history.
[T]he great test [of history] has been decidedly against Marx and his theories of value and surplus value.
Nakhchivan has an ancient history of statehood. This is Azerbaijan’s statehood history.
While we read history we make history.
Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.
Honor made him a man. Courage made him a hero. History made him a Legend.
History is at once freedom and necessity.
[History]... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races.
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
We have sewn the sea — Jesus Christ, Don Quixote and me: the three great fools of history...
The only lesson history has taught us is that man has not yet learned anything from history.