Quotes about History, page 2

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Quote by Francis Bacon about history

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about history

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

Quote by Dean Acheson about history

But a lot of womyn are working with witchcraft. That's a very strong womyn's history.

Quote by Kathy Acker about history

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of...

Quote by Ansel Adams about history

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about history

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

Quote by Franklin P. Adams about history

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about history

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

Quote by Bruce Barton about history

She isn't legacy focused, she's future focused. Today is reality. Yesterday is history. Her desire is not to change the future but to be there today.

Quote by Prince Andrew about history

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about history

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about history

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about history

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about history

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Quote by Aristotel about history

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Quote by George W. Bush about history

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

Quote by George W. Bush about history

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

Quote by George W. Bush about history

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

Quote by George W. Bush about history

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Quote by Albert Camus about history