HISTORY QUOTES III

quotations about history

The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

JACQUELINE CAREY

Kushiel's Dart

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No generation can escape history.

GEORGE H. W. BUSH

commencement address at Texas A&M University, May 12, 1989

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History makes haste to record great deeds, but often neglects good ones.

HOSEA BALLOU

attributed, Treasury of Thought

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The best historian lies like a mirror.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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He, therefore, that is dead to all the smiles and to all the frowns of the living, alone is equal to the hazardous task of writing a history of his own times, worthy of being transmitted to times that are to come.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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History admits no rules, only outcomes.

DAVID MITCHELL

Cloud Atlas


History, n. an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary

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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

OSCAR WILDE

The Critic as Artist

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

CICERO

Pro Publio Sestio

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To remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child.

CICERO

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The manner of writing history is as characteristic of the narrator as the actions are of the persons who are related to have performed them; often much more so. It may be generally defined as a view of one age taken by another; a picture of a series of men and women painted by one of another series.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Literary Studies

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If you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.

MICHAEL CRICHTON

Timeline

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I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth.

BOYD K. PACKER

Faithful History


Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning

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History is on every occasion the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.

JACOB BURCKHARDT

Judgements on History and Historians


The history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER

The Deerslayer

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History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

KARL MARX

Die Heilige Familie

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All great historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice ... the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

KARL MARX

The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

GEORGE HENRY LEWES

The Foundations of a Creed


Half the things you've been taught in school are just convenient fictions. History is a puppet show for childish minds.

JOHN TWELVE HAWKS

The Traveler

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