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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.
The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.
Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history.
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
The moment the world falls apart, you start forgetting history and wrongdoings in the past.
Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.
It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.
What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.
History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.
If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.
One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.
Ronnie O'Sullivan is the only player in history to be dominant and popular at the same time.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?
History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.
I love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing.
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
There is, of course, no larger mass hysteria in American history than the epidemic of racism.
If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.
History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.
We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.
He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.
History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.
Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.