History quotes

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

Value people on their potential, not on their history.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Sometimes - history needs a push.

The majority see the obstacles the few see the objectives history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.