History Quotes About the Past & Its Lessons – Page 9 | GloryQuotes

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Imre Lakatos

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Bobby Scott

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

Logan P. Smith

As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

Marty Meehan

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

Eduard Shevardnadze

I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.

Gregg Easterbrook

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.

Alice Miller

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

Quentin Tarantino

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Elizabeth II

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

Marie de France

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.

Mike Fitzpatrick

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

John Buchan

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Walter Bagehot

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Henry James

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Richard M. Nixon

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

Barbara Kruger

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

Helen Dunmore

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

Edmond de Goncourt

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

Richard Stallman

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

Antonia Fraser

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

David Wilkerson

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

Robert Rauschenberg

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

G. M. Trevelyan

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

Sarah Vowell

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

Paul Ricoeur

We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.

Joichi Ito

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.

John Moody

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Christian Nestell Bovee

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

Antonia Fraser

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

Johan Huizinga

It's a very good historical book about history.

Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.

Jim Walsh

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

Lech Walesa

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

Ron Reagan

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

Ken Burns

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

James A. Garfield

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Brooks Atkinson

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

Jacques Delors

History takes time. History makes memory.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

Samuel E. Morison

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.

Robert Smithson

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

Ibrahim Babangida

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.

Octavia Butler

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

Robert Smithson