History Quotes - Page 12

To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

All business is personal...Make your friends before you need them.

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back

Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object is to recognize the trend whose premise is false, ride that trend and step off before it is discredited.

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

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

It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.

If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

Be assured, he is not an ordinary man.

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.