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Top 50 History Quotes Share – Quotes About History

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything. -Albert Camus
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. -Theodore Roosevelt
History is a set of lies agreed upon. -Napoleon Bonaparte
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. -Henry David Thoreau
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. -Robert Frost
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present. -Joan Rivers
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. -Friedrich Nietzsche(History Quotes)
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. -Robert Kennedy
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. -Michelle Obama
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. -Aristotle

Top 50 History Quotes Share - Quotes About History

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
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -Aldous Huxley
Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them. -Norodom Sihanouk
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. -Pope John Paul II
The soles of Neil Armstrong’s boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent’s sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong. -Mitt Romney
I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register. -Mike Tyson
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. -Aldous Huxley
The world’s battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history. -Henry Ward Beecher
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -Virginia Woolf
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. -Carter G. Woodson
(Best History Quotes)Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. -Aldous Huxley
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character. -P. J. O’Rourke
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. -William Butler Yeats
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

Top 50 History Quotes Share - Quotes About History

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. -Karl Marx
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. -Woodrow Wilson
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. -Robert A. Heinlein
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. -Thomas Merton
President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history. -Mitt Romney
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. -B. C. Forbes
Women's history month quotes
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.  -Dwight D. Eisenhower
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. -Voltaire
History should be written as philosophy. -Voltaire
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn’t really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn’t control them as easily. -Maynard James Keenan
Best History quotes
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice! -Dwight D. Eisenhower

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