History Quotes - page 3

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. (David Brin)
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! View quote
Nikita Khrushchev
A page of history is worth a pound of logic. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs. View quote
David Ben-Gurion
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
Like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. View quote
A. J. P. Taylor
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift... that's why they call it the present. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. View quote
Ludwig von Mises
History shows that there are no invincible armies. View quote
Joseph Stalin
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. View quote
Karl Marx
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. View quote
Voltaire
Ideas shape the course of history. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. View quote
Gerald Ford
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. View quote
Aristotle
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. (Charles Darwin)
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
History is a graveyard of aristocracies. View quote
Vilfredo Pareto
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. View quote
Harry S. Truman
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. View quote
John Adams