History Quotes - Page 31

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

We learned the value of research in World War II.

In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.

We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.

History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there.

History is no more than memories refreshed.

I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.