Best 5189 quotes in «history quotes» category

If you write a post and put it on a blog, that's a historical document.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.

I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be an artist. You have to add a new page to history; otherwise you are not making a contribution. But making history is not easy.

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed, unless the evil is restrained, seems to me certain.... The greatest and consequently most urgent evil now is the press.... All journals, pamphlets in Germany must be under a censorship.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

I have been blind expecting everything to stay the same.

I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.

I joined a gym recently. I don't have the best history in the world of sticking with my fitness regimens, but I feel like this time's gonna be different. I figure one of two things is gonna happen: either I'll get into shape, or I'll just resign myself to paying an $85 a month fat tax.

I, indeed, following the true law of history, have never set down any fact that I have not learned from trustworthy speakers or writers.

I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.

I just couldn't move. History had me glued to the seat.

I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does; but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight but it scares me like hell.

I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls.

I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

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.

Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.

In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.

In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has recently agitated the nation..., I fervently hope that the question is at rest and that no sectional or ambitious or fanatical excitement may again threaten the durability of our institutions.

In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only in the last twenty years or so that a definition of mathematics emerged on which most mathematicians agree: mathematics is the science of patterns.

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, "memoirs to serve for a history," which is but materials to serve for a mythology.

... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear that in addition to training and in addition to extensive knowledge, a natural quality of mind was also necessary.

In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to what they paid homage. It was noisy, undisciplined, vainglorious; its leader was a half-educated posturing foreigner. For a decade the National Socialists were regarded as hoodlums, as part of the breakdown of what had been, if anything, an excessively ordered society before.

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, The New York Times, The Washington Post and other newspaper should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors

In populous cities, which are the seat of commerce and manufactures, the middle ranks of inhabitants, who derive their subsistence from the dexterity or labour of their hands, are commonly the most prolific, the most useful, and, in that sense, the most respectable part of the community.

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.