Quotes about History
The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I have a history with charismatic, attractive men who just wear me out.
- Hillary Clinton
Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.
- John Milton
Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?
- Cicero
Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.
- Gracie Gold
History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.
- Ludwig Borne
History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An old Apache storyteller reminds us
- Joseph Campbell
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
- Aristotle
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.
- Henry A. Wallace