951 private quotes tagged history

“Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.” — H. L. Mencken

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“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.” — Franz Kafka

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“History will be kind to me; for I intend to write it.” — Winston Churchill

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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” — Thomas Carlyle

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

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“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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“I came, I saw, I conquered.” — Julius Caesar

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“History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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

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

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

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

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

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“Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.” — Karl Marx

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“If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.” — E. O. Wilson

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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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“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” — H. G. Wells

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“The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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