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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.
Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
Black history is part of American history, and it should be treated as such.
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.
Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
I believe that the Holocaust is the most significant event in human history.
The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.
Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.
Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.
A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.
Without history we are nothing, so it's worth finding out something about it.
The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?
Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.
A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.
To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.
People seem ready for a more in-depth idea of folk music, culture and history.
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.
History has suggested that the pessimists have been wrong time and time again.
History proves that those who seed extremist ideologies reap a bitter harvest.
History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.
No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.