Quotes about History
In Him (God), history and prophecy are one and the same.
- AW Tozer
In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice... Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.
- Helen Keller
You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.
- Jerry B. Jenkins
The dead should not rule the living.
- Thomas Jefferson
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
She has been better educated than her sister, and has a more receptive mind. It seems as though someone had sown in a bare field a sprinkling of history, poetry, and pictures, and every seed had shot up in a flowery tangle.
- Edith Wharton
Denied access to information about important arenas of human life, history, and art, women like Augusta Welland demonstrate well into adulthood a lack of moral insight and sympathetic compassion.
- Edith Wharton
No treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.
- Edith Wharton
Here was no retrospective pretense of an opulent past, such as the other Invaders were given to parading before the bland but undeceived subject race. The Spraggs had been plain people and had not yet learned to be ashamed of it.
- Edith Wharton
What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, as a decent fellow, to conceal his past from her, and hers, as a marriageable girl, to have no past to conceal.
- Edith Wharton
What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, as a "decent" fellow, to conceal his past from her, and hers, as a marriageable girl, to have no past to conceal?
- Edith Wharton