Quotes about History
We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.
- Ronald Reagan
The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.
- Stephen Jay Gould
The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history.
- Charles Colson
It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.
- Ernest Hemingway
...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
- Richard Nixon
There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.
- Will Rogers
I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.
- Desmond Tutu
The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.
- Elie Wiesel