History Quotes About the Past & Its Lessons – Page 8 | GloryQuotes

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

Roland Joffe

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Soren Kierkegaard

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

John Maynard Keynes

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

R. D. Laing

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

C. Wright Mills

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.

David Wilkerson

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

James Lovelock

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

George H. Mead

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

Salman Rushdie

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

Norman Mailer

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

Alfred de Vigny

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

Charles Dudley Warner

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

Tom Wolfe

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Jean Genet

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

Phillip Noyce

It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

Bulent Ecevit

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

George Wald

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Thomas Merton

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

David Ben Gurion

I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

John Pople

In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

David McCullough

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Ray Bradbury

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

Bill Condon

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

Adrienne Rich

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

Ben Jonson

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

Vivienne Westwood

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Washington Irving

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

Mickey Spillane

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

Paul Valery

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

Gavin Newsom

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

Roland Joffe

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

Anita Roddick

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

Stefan Zweig

Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.

Alan Dundes

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

Douglas Hurd

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

Lytton Strachey

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.

Learned Hand

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

Henri Bergson

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

Wilfred Owen

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

Jared Diamond

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

Luis Gutierrez