History Quotes - Page 65

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

We live ruins amid ruins.

The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

Our best history is still poetry.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.

History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.

I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.

I have been blind expecting everything to stay the same.