951 private quotes tagged history

“If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.” — Warren Buffett

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“We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.” — Henry Ford

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“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” — Maya Angelou

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“The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.” — Epicurus

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“History doesn't crawl; it leaps.” — Nassim Taleb

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“You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.” — William Butler Yeats

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“Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history; that man can never learn anything from history.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.” — Dalai Lama

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“Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.” — Carl Sagan

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“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” — Harry S. Truman

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“The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“History shows that there are no invincible armies.” — Joseph Stalin

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“The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.” — Samuel Butler

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“History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Human history in essence is the history of ideas.” — H. G. Wells

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“A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'” — William F. Buckley, Jr.

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“I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.” — Dalai Lama

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“The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.” — Edmund Burke

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“I think the materialist conception of history is valid.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.” — Voltaire

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“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.” — Voltaire

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“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” — Mark Twain

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“History, a distillation of rumour.” — Thomas Carlyle

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