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History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born (History Quotes)
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world (History Quotes)
What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things (History Quotes)
If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them (History Quotes)
If there’s anything to learn from the history of movies, it’s that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence (History Quotes)
Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius (History Quotes)
If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be (History Quotes)
A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game (History Quotes)
The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves (History Quotes)
Throughout history, the really fundamental changes in societies have come about not from the dictates of governments and the results of battles, but through vast numbers of people changing their minds, sometimes only a little bit (History Quotes)
I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what he did. They said I had to be six, but if I could swim a lap, then I could participate. So I swam a lap, and the rest is history (History Quotes)
Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius (History Quotes)
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better (History Quotes)
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right (History Quotes)
It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons (History Quotes)
History is the myth, the true myth, of man’s fall made manifest in time (History Quotes)
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly (History Quotes)
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it (History Quotes)
Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine (History Quotes)
Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors (History Quotes)
Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace... Peace will be the last word of history (History Quotes)
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams (History Quotes)
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes (History Quotes)
All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine (History Quotes)
And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you’re going to repeat it; and if you’re burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don’t get it, you’re missing the whole point (History Quotes)
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print (History Quotes)
I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality (History Quotes)
Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other’s names encompass all our history, all our love, all our fear, all our fights, all our reunions, all of what we know about each other, all of what we don’t know? (History Quotes)
They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives (History Quotes)
Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion (History Quotes)