History Quotes: Timeless Wisdom from the Past (Page 6)

"It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations"

Doug Coupland, Author

"May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Human history in essence is the history of ideas"

H.G. Wells, Author

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe"

H.G. Wells, Author

"History is a race between education and catastrophe"

H.G. Wells, Author

"History shows that there are no invincible armies"

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say"

Will Durant, Historian

"Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard"

Will Durant, Historian

"Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history"

George Orwell, Author

"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"History is more or less bunk"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"History has been the history of warfare"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell"

Thomas Merton, Author

"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know"

George Eliot, Author

"Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar"

George Eliot, Author

"English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did"

Malcolm Bradbury, Novelist

"There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

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