Quotes about History
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
- Aldous Huxley
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
- Aldous Huxley
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
- Aldous Huxley
Italy during Shakespeare's time had citizens of all cultures and colors. To pretend that it did not is ignorance. And I don't waste my time on ignorance.
- Shonda Rhimes
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.
- James Faust
What I have noticed is that no two places in Calcutta are alike. I like the bylanes and the old places. This city has a lot of character.
- Barun Sobti
I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.
- Julie Andrews
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
- William Temple
I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.
- Luis Alberto Urrea
I can probably go down in history as the best backup point guard ever in NBA history.
- Baron Davis
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.
- Reinhold Niebuhr