History Quotes - Page 48

History is the daughter of time.

The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be an artist. You have to add a new page to history; otherwise you are not making a contribution. But making history is not easy.

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.

The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame game which he played to her.

The history of mankind is his character.

All our knowledge is symbolic.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

Art is science in the flesh.