History Quotes

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.

Everyday create your history, every path you take you're leaving your legacy.

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

Certainly, no fact in the long history of the world is so startling as the wide and repeated exterminations of its inhabitants.

The natural history of this archipelago is very remarkable; it seems to be a little world within itself.

Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.

The Bible: It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed the impossible.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Kings are the slaves of history.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.

History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.