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Quotes
About History
History
is a mighty drama, enacted upon the theatre of time, with suns for
lamps, and eternity for a background. ~ Thomas Carlyle
History will
be kind to me for I intend to write it. ~ Winston Churchill
Human
history is in essence a history of ideas. ~ H. G. Wells
History is philosophy
teaching by examples. ~ Dionysius
The
knowledge gained from history is the truest education and training
for political action. ~ Polybius
Human
history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
~ H. G. Wells
The
kind of events that once took place by human nature take place again.
~ Thucydides
I
like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Read
no history, nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
The
time for extracting a lesson from history is ever at hand for those
who are wise. ~ Desmosthenes
We
can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path
which has led to the present. ~ Adlai Stevenson
In rivers, the
water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first
of that which comes; so with present time. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
Life
is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. ~ Sioux
Proverb
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
But
what experience and history teach is this—that peoples and governments
have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles
deduced from it. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
History
is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy. ~ James A. Garfield
We
are ancients of the earth,
And in the morning of the times. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
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