Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It's the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.
Oscar Wilde
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. 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 made today.
Henry Ford
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.
Mahatma Ghandi
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Rudyard Kipling
The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know.
Harry S Truman
"The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes".
Adolf Hitler
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
Augustine Birrell
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
Paul Eldridge
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau
History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.
Horace Walpole
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.
William Paley
The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.
Larry Summers
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
Jefferson Davis
For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
J. W. Schopf
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
Ted Koppel
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
Konrad Adenauer
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
John Sharp Williams
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
Leonard Louis Levinson
The vicissitudes of history, however, have not dissuaded them from their earnest search for a "third way" between socialism and capitalism, namely socialism.
Richard John Neuhaus
If history has ended, it has been stopped at remarkable cost to the average US citizen.
Ben Manski
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
John W. Gardner
History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.
John Lecarre
Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.
Joan Crawford
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
Friedrich Engels
In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.
Louis Kronenberger
History is a better guide than good intentions.
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
Alexander Smith
I have to constantly negotiate the tension between past neighborhood and present neighborhood.
Michael Eric Dyson
We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.
Lester B. Pearson
The men who make history have not time to write it.
Klemens Von Metternich
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations.
John Barth
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
Marge Piercy
If you write a post and put it on a blog, that's a historical document. If you change your template, then that entry looks completely different. It's the same words, but not the same meaning. This all depends on what historical questions that people will be asking and we can't know what they will want.
Josh Greenberg
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Sir Winston Churchill
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Philip Elmer DeWitt
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
(History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
James Joyce
[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.
Theodore Parker
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
Kofi Annan
From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.
George Orwell
All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellowmen in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others, and might shift the burden of life from their own shoulders upon those of ot.
William Graham Sumner
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
Eldridge Cleaver
Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.
Evelyn Underhill
History, sir, will tell lies, as usual.
George Bernard Shaw
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
History is bunk.
Henry Ford
History is more or less bunk.
Henry Ford
I like the dreams of the future, better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson
There is a history in all men's lives.
William Shakespeare
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Edmund Burke
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
A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.
Deepak Chopra
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
James A. Garfield
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
Woodrow Wilson
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Lois McMaster Bujold
If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
Albert Camus
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
Hannah Arendt
I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.
George W. Bush
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
George W. Bush
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
Georg W. Hegel
They're certainly saying all the right words, but after their history, everyone's waiting to see them execute.
Mike Feibus
This is a living history. They should teach this in high school.
Bryan Kennedy
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
Robert A. Heinlein
That might be the first time in school history we're 5-0, but I can't say that for sure.
John Andreoli
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
Joseph Conrad
I believe that there are certain contexts in black communities as a sign of belonging and an attempt to remember that history will be written away.
Davarian Baldwin
But our history has been that we've been a pretty good offensive football team, and should be one again. That's my confidence.
Javon Walker
With us getting married, there was always going to be history there. If it hadn't been here it would have been in the park.
Ricci Rios
He has a lot of history with area. It shows his commitment, and I'm sure it's part of the reason he is so committed.
David Frank
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
Fernand Braudel
The blues is part of our history, our culture, and it's being forgotten. We want to do something about that.
Chad Kassem
Now he needs 800 more at-bats to be the greatest hitter in history.
Todd Jones
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke
There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.
Stephen Colbert
While we read history we make history.
George William Curtis
It's just like the Red Sox-Yankees in our sport. There's a lot of hatred there, a lot of history.
Dan Lacouture
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
William Mckinley
What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We make up most of our history around here, ... Codger.
Roy Rogers
This is the outstanding achievement not only of our lifetime but in terms of human history.
Michael Dexter
Just to be part of something great, this is history we're living in right now. We changed the face of college basketball.
Lamar Butler
This is a milestone in the history of ABB.
Fred Kindle
We have more body fat in the state of Utah than we have ever had before in history.
Steven Aldana
He has a true sense of history and pride in the state.
John Wiater
We're going to have things that talk about Englewood, that talk about the history and where we've been the last 100 years.
Shelly Stont
The history of the wagon wheel bridges is tumultuous at best.
Patrick Halsted
He played a lot of slot in high school. Based on his history, he could probably help us there.
Todd Monken
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
Lech Walesa
We are enjoying one of the most favorable economic climates in our history and are outstripping the rest of the U.K. in almost every aspect of economic activity.
Rhodri Morgan
If anything, it is a good time to be in the market based on past history.
Michael Panzner
He was involved in some of the most difficult moments in PPL history. In the end, he did a very fine job.
David Schanzer
We reenact battles in our area, but we also do living history, enacting daily life at schools and community centers.
Alex Davis
We are proud of our 40 year history in Australia and our commitment in the 1960s to begin manufacturing in Australia which we continue here today.
Marketing Manager
We're not aware of any history of seizures or blackouts.
Joel Henderson
We have a history of accretive transactions that have significantly benefited shareholders.
Dianne Neal
This is one of those times when history looks upon us to see where we are.
Tom Umberg
History seems to be so clumsy.
Robert Johnson
That donation of land enabled us to have all our diamonds in one place, and the rest is history.
Warren Beville
That has to be the biggest comeback in the history of high school skiing.
Greg Mcclallen
Make the time because it's important to you and your family and the history of the family.
Annette Pacarro
It was one-on-one. He asked me some American history questions, and I had to say the Pledge of Allegiance. At least he didn't ask me to sing.
Gwin Price
It's a special bit of British history that New Zealanders can connect with.
David Quarmby
I got the one hire in '75; I thanked my brother for making me change my mind; and the rest, as they say, is history.
Dick Bavetta
History will look back and say it was very worthwhile.
David Mcgrew
We're willing to pay a reasonable amount to put this matter behind us. We want to go back to focusing on our business and not on ancient history.
Andrew Levin
These are ... sites that have a history of contamination, all of which are linked to massive neglect.
Klaus Toepfer
Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
Dolores Huerta
History teaches us lessons we should not forget.
Linda Wade
That's all we talked about all week, that we could make history.
Brodie Croyle
It's an exciting time. There's only one first bowl game in a team's history, and we're playing in it.
Pat Julmiste
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
Robert Lynd
The only country that had this law is Canada. This was really racism.... Why strictly on Chinese? History said those people built the railways for Canada.
Philip Liang
This today is the most massive crisis migration, except perhaps the Civil War, in American history.
James Gregory
It was necessary to go back. There's too much history and tradition. We are Mardi Gras.
Naaman Stewart
We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow.
Robert H. Jackson
This is one of the most significant drug busts in the history of northeast Ohio.
Richard Denholm
History is too serious to be left to historians.
Ian Macleod
We are reaching a low point in the history of the profession. And as we eventually emerge from this it will be with a better profession, and a better financial market.
Art Bowman
Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.
Tom Selleck
History seems to be repeating itself.
James Lago
This is a good deal. We're all for historic preservation, and the Craig Bridge does have a lot of history to it.
Kent Barnes
The fans saw the most exciting race in the history of NASCAR in Idaho. They saw a lot of green-flag racing and a lot of crashes. It was definitely far from boring.
Steve York
There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming.
Jo Stafford
Especially gratifying since they follow on the heels of three of the most difficult and challenging years in our history.
Joe Crawford
She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.
Simon Hoggart
The vast majority are decent, law-abiding people. But, as with any large group, you're going to run into people who have a criminal history.
Katie Ford
Historic paintings used to focus on the history of a unit or company. Now, the focus is on what they are doing, themselves.
Rick Reeves
Which goalkeeper has the worst disciplinary record in history?
Andy Kelly
We'd like to create the same with women's history and to illustrate the knowledge that they have added to the history of our country.
Susan Jollie
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
Avram Noam Chomsky
My goal is to relate history to the modern day, ... History can give you an advantage because if you control the past, you control the future.
Jeff Evans
I'm taking a shot, baby. This is the biggest game in the history of college football.
Bill Meadows
I'm sick of making bloody history.
Patrick Rafter
That really placed him on the archaeological map. It really helped the beginnings of the rewriting of Egyptian history.
Tammis Groft
We are very pleased with how the holiday is going for us so far. It is the best we have had in our history.
Raul Vazquez
History is all around us. It's still being found today.
Susan Gray
I believe history will judge him as one of the strongest and most constructive of the Fed chairs.
Andrew Brimmer
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
Arthur Ashe
The '04 version is one of the greatest comeback seasons in Cal State Fullerton history.
George Horton
We'll go to two of the cemeteries and be dressed as people who did something outstanding in Raynham history and are buried there.
Kathleen Roberts
History teaches us lessons. How come there are no Chinese in the valley now? They were all chased off.
Jeresa Hren
I'm a pretty big believer that history is likely to repeat itself.
Robert Kotick
Selma, it is time for us now to put our civil war and civil rights history in the museum.
James Perkins
It's the first time Nordstrom in its 100-year history has ever done something for an athletic conference.
Hade Robinson Jr
We've lost a lot of history, but we have gained a lot of friends we didn't realize we had.
Wardell Harris
We're hoping that people will get a sense of appreciation for the history of the town.
Pam Wilson
This court has a dark history, it has always been chosen to try political opponents. This is a political verdict.
Amir Salem
RSI reached the lowest level ever in the history of the February contract.
Carl Neill
That car of his is a bit old these days. It's a bit of history. It could be time for a change.
Ray Borrett
He has a criminal history in Atlanta for failure to appear. That shows his propensity not to comply with a court order.
Lorrain Croy
We added far more customers and employees in the first quarter of 1999 than in any other quarter of our history.
Charles Brewer
This is something like we have never seen before in the history of the industry.
Jonathan Harris
There's so much character and history in that than there ever would be in a Wal-Mart.
Chris Brewer
Europe often seems sort of overly concerned with the weight of history and stuff. We don't have much history here, so... .
Chuck Close
Every muscular contraction contains the history and meaning of its origin.
Wilhelm Reich
The single most harmful, disgraceful and racist act in our history.
Irwin Cotler
I truly feel blessed and honored to have that title. I'm really excited that my grandkids will be reading about me in history books.
Vonetta Flowers
I'm sure that history will justify our choice.
Shimon Peres
The Biblical prophet doesn't predict the future, but bears witness to the presense of God in history.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
I don't think in the history of Fort Myers that we've ever had anything like this.
Lucas Benitez
We did what we set out to do, ... We preserved history.
Alon Pinkas
She represents the history and tradition set forth by the Sisters of Mercy.
Larry Beck
I think we should learn about all cultures history. We're all connected.
Jessica Wilson
This is the largest organized crime and gambling case in Fairfax County's history.
Captain David Vice
We had nearly $14 billion in revenue – the best in our history.
Peter Oppenheimer
Yeah, that's right. We made history. Not bad, huh?
Chris Mary
She was left out of history and betrayed then and now on the eve of the 21st Century, and they are trying to leave her out of history and betray her again.
C. Delores Tucker
We never forget about history, ... but we have to serve the story.
Jerry Bruckheimer
Every card is a record of history. They are like pieces of a puzzle.
Janet Devries
We get a lot of tourists through there. There's a critical part of the nation's history sitting there.
Nicole Cline
He's almost become a cartoon character. He's viewed as the most evil villain in baseball history.
Dan Holmes
The ceremony was one of the largest events in the town's history.
Scott Marshall
It's a gorgeous country with all sorts of history, ... A lot of Europeans vacation in Portugal, but it hasn't really caught on with North Americans.
Melisse Gelula
When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.
Allan Sherman
It's a great opportunity for us. We're going with someone who has experience, and if you look at most people who succeed they've got a history in this event.
David Massey
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow
It's a great opportunity for us to make history and we're very much aware of that.
Todd Woodbridge
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