Famous History Quotes Part – 22

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It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

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It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.

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It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

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It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

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It is the essence of the poor that they do not appear in history.- Anonymous

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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man’s judgment.

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It is very hard to remember that events now long in the past were once in the future.- Maitland

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It is when the hour of the conflict is over that history comes to a right understanding of the strife, and is ready to exclaim, ‘Lo, God is here, and we knew him not!’

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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.

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It should be known that history is a discipline that has a great number of approaches.- Ibn Khalduin

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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

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It’ll save part of what was history.

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It’s a very good historical book about history.

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It’s nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I’m bloody close.

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Just as philosophy is the study of other people’s misconceptions, so history is the study of other people’s mistakes.

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Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can’t stop to count it.

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Knowledge of history frees us to be contemporary.


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