History Quotes - Page 49

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.

We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks.

All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.

German history is full of serious mistakes pertaining to premature personnel decisions.

The long historian of my country's woes.

The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.

Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.

They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

History casts its shadow far into the land of song.

Why change the world? Change worlds!

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

I am someone who is fascinated with European German history, the Holocaust, and to see these parallels in our own democratic system, and then to see them come to this absolutely incredible climax, and this fruition with the election of The Donald, it was just too much.

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

No historian should be trusted implicitly.

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

I find it hard even now not to look on your North African strategy with a jaundiced eye. Cross Channel operations for the liberation of France and advance on Germany, we should finish the war quicker. Yes, probably, but not the way we hope to finish it.

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.