HISTORY QUOTES IV

quotations about history

History is a vast dust-heap of falsehood with a few pennies of truth scattered through it.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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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


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

Tags: Michael Crichton


History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

RIVAROL

attributed, Day's Collacon


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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A good knowledge of things past is an armour against events to come.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

REBECCA WEST

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

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History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods

Tags: Jeanette Winterson


History is philosophy teaching by example.

HENRY ST. JOHN BOLINGBROKE

Letters on the Study and Use of History


History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.

GEORGE ELIOT

Janet's Repentance

Tags: George Eliot


The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

The Devils of Loudun

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History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory.

GEORGE SANTAYANA

The Life of Reason

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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

MAO ZEDONG

"On Coalition Government", Apr. 24, 1945


Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

TANITH LEE

The Gods are Thirsty


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

Tags: Francis Bacon


History is a struggle between the "old" right that intended to be just and the "new" that promises to be.

REINHARD BENDIX

Truth and Ideology

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

H.G. WELLS

The Outline of History

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History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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The best historian lies like a mirror.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.

ANNE BRONTE

Agnes Grey

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