History Quotes - Page 57

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.

Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.

Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.

In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.

We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.

History does not unfold: it piles up.

Hitler's oratory moved people and appealed to their hopes and dreams. But his speeches malevolently twisted hope into some gnarled ghastly entities, and appealed to the latent, darkest prejudices of Germans.

Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate professors.

... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear that in addition to training and in addition to extensive knowledge, a natural quality of mind was also necessary.

History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.

It sounds funny to say, but we saw [Kate's wedding to Prince William] as just a family wedding. And actually, I didn't realize - perhaps - the scale of it until afterwards. We all took on the roles as any family would.

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.

Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.

Science has penetrated the constitution of nature, and unrolled the mysterious pages of its history, and started again many, as yet, unanswered questions in respect to the mutual relations of matter and spirit, of nature and of God.

I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.

The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

History is a myth that men agree to believe.

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.