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Biography: History is the essence of…
Biography: Read no history: nothing but…
Cambodia: Our wounds can never be…
Change: The charm of history and…
Childhood: Political history is far too…
Critics: The critic is the historian who records…
Culture: History is a clock that…
Democracy: Historical instruction must strive to give our…
Disease: Epidemics have often been more…
Fame: Love of fame is the…
French Revolution: It is still too early…
Historians: A historian is a prophet…
Historians: All historians must tell their tale…
Historians: And what I want to say to historians is that…
Historians: Father of Lies.
Historians: Great abilities are not requisite…
Historians: Historians are like deaf people…
Historians: Historians like to nail things down, not…
Historians: Historians relate, not so much what is done,…
Historians: Historians seek to be detached, impartial.…
Historians: History does not repeat itself.…
Historians: History is too serious to…
Historians: History repeats itself; historians repeat…
Historians: I hold that the novelist is the historian of…
Historians: If historians have shown themselves, on…
Historians: If the historian could indeed separate…
Historians: It is the most agreeable talent of an…
Historians: It is the nature of politics that conflict…
Historians: No effective historian of the future can be…
Historians: No historian achieves the highest…
Historians: No one can really know the life of his…
Historians: Philhellenes have been known to accentuate…
Historians: That generations of historians have…
Historians: That great dust-heap called "history".
Historians: The "facts" of history do not exist for…
Historians: The day is past when historians glory in…
Historians: The historian is after all, the skilled…
Historians: The historian is merely trying to do in…
Historians: The historian is not God but I think it's…
Historians: The historian must have...some conception…
Historians: The historian must not try to know what is…
Historians: The historian must resist all pleas to…
Historians: The historian must re-tell, with a new…
Historians: The historian who attempts to interpret the…
Historians: The historian who writes history therefore,…
Historians: The historian, despite his training in…
Historians: The historian, essentially, wants more…
Historians: The modern historian admits that there were…
Historians: The real task of the historian is to throw…
Historians: The talent of historians lies in their…
Historians: To be an historian in France is to be a…
Historians: To historians, the single interest is the law…
Historians: Too many historical writers are the votaries…
Historians: Too many so-called historians are really…
Historians: We find but few historians of all ages, who…
Historians: When historians and social critics have…
Historians: When the historian never fully realizes his…
Historians: Wide agreement now exists that history is not…
History: History, n. An account, mostly…
History: A history of humanity to…
History: A history without moral dimension is a…
History: A morsel of genuine history is a thing so…
History: A nation must be willing to look…
History: A page of history is worth a volume of…
History: A people not prepared to face its own…
History: A record of the power of minorities, and…
History: A self-sufficient and self-contained…
History: According to the materialist conception of…
History: All history is necessarily written from the…
History: All history is the history of thought.
History: All history must necessarily have reference to…
History: All our ancient history, as…
History: All periods of history show a strain of…
History: An institution is the lengthened shadow of…
History: And history? What use is history? Is…
History: Anything but history, for history must be…
History: As it actually was.
History: Behind the oft-repeated statement that each…
History: Black history began with Malcolm X.
History: But even regarding History as the…
History: But I see history as a book with many…
History: But old man history tells us that it's better to…
History: Every history has one quality in common with…
History: Examine the history of all nations and all…
History: For a people to be without History, or to…
History: For history, international relations are…
History: For history, the object to be discovered is not…
History: For if history relates good things of good…
History: For summer being done, all things stand upon them…
History: For the essence and drama of history lie…
History: For very, very much history there is more…
History: For what is history, but...huge libel on…
History: Great men make history, but…
History: Happy that Nation, fortunate that age,…
History: Hegel says somewhere that all…
History: Henry Ford declared that history was…
History: Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
History: Historians tell the story of…
History: Historical sciences...recognize the…
History: History a distillation of rumour.
History: History appears at present to be a science…
History: History does not tempt only by flattery.…
History: History does offer some lessons, and it…
History: History does repeat itself, with…
History: History employs evolution to structure…
History: History enables us to understand the past…
History: History enjoys discrediting arbitrarily chosen…
History: History furnishes many instances of similar…
History: History gets thicker as it…
History: History has been conceived—and with high…
History: History has no rubbish heap.
History: History in the large is the conflict of…
History: History in this country has become castor…
History: History is a bath of blood.
History: History is a cage, a…
History: History is a fragment of biology: the…
History: History is a jangle of accidents,…
History: History is a post-mortem examination. It…
History: History is a tangled skein that one may…
History: History is all party pamphlets.
History: History is an endless repetition…
History: History is as all-embracing as life…
History: History is capricious in its awards of…
History: History is color-blind, and can develop a…
History: History is more or less…
History: History is not a pie to be sliced into…
History: History is not a prediction, but a…
History: History is not life. But since only life…
History: History is not only becoming, it is also…
History: History is organized memory, and the…
History: History is past politics, and…
History: History is philosophy teaching by…
History: History is shaped, beyond our conscious…
History: History is so indifferently rich that a…
History: History is the action and reaction of these…
History: History is the artificial extension of…
History: History is the memory of states.
History: History is the record of an encounter…
History: History is the sum total…
History: History is the torch that is meant to…
History: History is the vast and complex tale of the…
History: History is vanishing allegory.
History: History is written by the winners.
History: History is, to begin with at any rate, an…
History: History itself is virtually indefinable,…
History: History may lean on the social sciences;…
History: History must be defended against attempts…
History: History never looks like history…
History: History never stops. It progresses…
History: History offers no comfort. It hands out hard…
History: History repeats itself. That's one of the…
History: History shows you prospects by starlight,…
History: History smiles at all attempts to force…
History: History subverts the stereotype of…
History: History teaches perhaps few lessons. But…
History: History teaches us that men…
History: History tells how it was. A story—how it…
History: History that ignores the god and the…
History: History was a trash-bag of coincidences…
History: History! they shouted. Give us back our…
History: History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be…
History: History, I contend, is the present.
History: History, in general, only informs us of…
History: History, in illuminating the past,…
History: History, like a vast river, propels logs,…
History: History, like love, is apt to surround her…
History: History, like science and literature,…
History: History, that excitable and lying old lady.
History: History, then, is the past. History is also…
History: History, too, has its uses, such as the…
History: History, without moral philosophy, is a…
History: History...may teach moral lessons and…
History: History...records the names of royal…
History: History: a collection of epitaphs.
History: History: gossip well told.
History: Human blunders usually do more…
History: Human history is a brief spot in space,…
History: I am ashamed to see what a shallow village…
History: I am inclined to think that history pays its…
History: I believe that history has shape, order, and…
History: I claim not to have…
History: I could wish that the English kept history…
History: I did not say it was bunk. It was bunk to…
History: I have lived in important places,…
History: I have no object but a superficial one as…
History: I have read somewhere or…
History: I know histhry isn't thrue, Hinnessy, because…
History: I like history because my reading of it is…
History: I may say here that no race is civilized until it…
History: I shall cheerfully bear the…
History: If all historical conceptions are merely…
History: If an historian were to relate truthfully…
History: If men could learn from…
History: If the history of a people is a philosophy…
History: If the problem of history is the problem…
History: If the science of medicine…
History: In analyzing history do not be too…
History: In history, as in art, man sees himself.…
History: In our nuclear age, the lack of a sense of…
History: In the eyes of the British establishment...a…
History: In the final analysis, history, like…
History: In the modern age history emerged as…
History: In the Romantic age, history, like art and…
History: Indeed, history is nothing more…
History: It is a great advantage to princes to have…
History: It is by becoming unmoral that history…
History: It is from numberless diverse acts of…
History: It is ignorance that causes most…
History: It is impossible to write…
History: It is necessary that Irish history should…
History: It is not the neutrals…
History: It is rather an imaginative creation, a…
History: It is the true office of history to…
History: It is what the masses endure, how they…
History: It was an obscene period in our nation's…
History: It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October,…
History: It's not perfect, but to me on balance Right…
History: Let us admit that there are two histories,…
History: Longing on a large scale is what makes…
History: Man is a history-making creature…
History: Man is explicable by nothing less than all…
History: Most history is guessing, and the rest is…
History: Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies…
History: Not that which men do worthily, but that…
History: Nothing is determined in advance. The…
History: Nothing is easier to teach than…
History: One can write history as if it had always looked…
History: Our historic imagination is at best…
History: Part of the problem with Ireland is that…
History: Past history is only a value of relation…
History: People are trapped in history…
History: People will say hard things of us now, but we…
History: Slate I picked from a nettlebed Had…
History: So they committed themselves to the will of…
History: Study the past, if you…
History: That is the triumph of history—truth…
History: The anthropologist respects history, but…
History: The centuries are conspirators against…
History: The crew that shot the film contained many…
History: The darkest pages in history are often the…
History: The dignity of history.
History: The drama of people struggling with the…
History: The effect of boredom on…
History: The felt unreliability of human experience…
History: The further you get away from any period,…
History: The good things in history are usually of…
History: The greater part of what passes for diplomatic…
History: The historians of facts who omit the most…
History: The historical reality is continuous, and…
History: The history of medicine does not depart…
History: The history of much of North America might…
History: The history of nations, in…
History: The history of societies, despite the…
History: The history of the past is a record of…
History: The history of the World…
History: The history that lies inert in unread…
History: The history which bears and determines us has the…
History: The horror of the twentieth century was the…
History: The laws of history only repeat the lines…
History: The laws of history, in general, are truth…
History: The leadership of western man in the human…
History: The lesson of history is rarely learned…
History: The lessons of historical experience, as…
History: The loftiest interests of man are made up…
History: The past will provide humanity with any…
History: The past, at least, is…
History: The principal effect of history is to…
History: The public history of all countries, and…
History: The riddle of history is not in Reason but…
History: The South creates the civilizations, the…
History: The study of history is the playground of…
History: The study of time and history is always…
History: The supreme purpose of history is a better…
History: The triumph of failure.
History: The twins were too young to know that these were…
History: The value of history lies not in the…
History: The whole of contemporary history, the World…
History: The world's history is a divine poem,…
History: The writing of history is, like the…
History: There can be no history without the gift of…
History: There is no history of…
History: There is no humorist like history.
History: There is properly no history;…
History: Think of it, soldiers; from…
History: This is not the time for soundbites. I can feel…
History: This, if I understand it, is one of those…
History: To detract from history is nothing else…
History: To yearn for a single, and usually simple,…
History: Unlike poetry and music, the art of history…
History: Using forced language we speak of a…
History: We have constantly to check ourselves in…
History: We have need of history in its entirety, not…
History: We live in a world where amnesia is the most…
History: We mutally agreed to call…
History: We're dying from not knowing and not…
History: What experience and history teach…
History: What is not recorded is not remembered.
History: What suffering, what dramatic events…
History: What we know of the…
History: What, then, are the criteria of history?…
History: When absolutes in history are rejected, the…
History: When eras die, their legacies Are left to…
History: Where there is no evidence, there is no…
History: Whereas there is one natural science, there are…
History: While other animals have memory, man alone…
History: With the United States, history was rather…
History: With the world a war began, which will end…
History: Women's history is the primary tool for…
Human Condition: We are not free, separate, and independent…
Human Nature: History repeats itself in the…
Insults: Gibbon is an ugly, affected,…
Integrity: Historians and students should have no…
Journalism: More attentive to the minute…
Knowledge: And even I can remember…
Knowledge: Of all kinds of knowledge, I consider…
Literature: Another damned, thick, square book!…
Past: The past is a kind of screen upon which we…
Perception: The general himself ought to…
Politicians: All politicians have selective memories;…
Politicians: No man can be a Politician, except he be…
Politics: Macaulay is well for a…
Proverbs: History repeats itself.
Psychiatry: Psychoanalysis, like Christianity, is a…
Psychology: I don't think the profession…
Sin: History offers some consolation by…
Society: There were no dates in this history, but…
War: History is littered with all the wars which…
Waste: We have wasted History like a bunch of…
Writers: Drama is the back-stairs of…
Writing: To give an accurate and…
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History shows you prospects by starlight, or, at best, by the waning moon.
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