History Quotes About the Past & Its Lessons – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

Kevin J. Anderson

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

Ellsworth Huntington

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

George Santayana

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Jeanette Winterson

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

Stephen Ambrose

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

Harry S. Truman

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

Harri Holkeri

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Golda Meir

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Vladimir Nabokov

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

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

Tim Berners Lee

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time.

Richard M. Daley

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

Margaret Mead

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Golda Meir

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Hubert H. Humphrey

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Joel Osteen

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

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

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Thomas Jefferson

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I.

Harry S. Truman

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Henri Bergson

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

Stockwell Day

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Winston Churchill

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

Stephen Gardiner

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Robertson Davies

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

E. O. Wilson

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.