Quotes about History
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I have a history with charismatic, attractive men who just wear me out.
— Hillary Clinton
Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.
— John Milton
Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?
— Cicero
History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.
— Ludwig Borne
History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
An old Apache storyteller reminds us
— Joseph Campbell
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
— Aristotle
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.
— Henry A. Wallace
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
— Ayn Rand
The Gospel is not a theory the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history.
— John Piper