H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“History is but the polemics of the victor.”
“History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs”
“History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.”
“History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.”
“History is change happening one person at a time.”
“History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.”
Source: Ilustrado: A Novel
“History is clarified experience.”
Source: Literary and political addresses
“History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.”
Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1
“History is contemporary. Your understanding of history confirms what you think of the present. It's not neutral. I would be very surprised if people with a different view of the present, don't take issue with my view of the past. I just hope that people deal with the content of the film.”
“History is continuous. It flows through us, sometimes fast, sometimes slow. In a society with little history, in the sense of movements, events, inventions struggles and newnesses, when movement seems to be slow, the elderly are respected and useful, the keepers of custom: their children want to be like them. This is a conservative society, often a happy one because it is not fragmented, but it is no fun for the innovators, those with new ideas, In a society where historical events crowd in so fast that people cannot keep up with them - which is what most societies are like at present - the old are comparatively useless and only likely to be respected for certain kinds of success, not for qualities of wisdom. Family continuity is no longer sought after. The one thing children don't want is to be like their parents.”
“History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.”
“History is disappointed with us human being.”
“History is dramatic license, covertly-financed with a sprinkling of gold dust from the newly-enthroned.”
“History is driven, over the long haul, by culture - by what men and women honor, cherish, and worship; by what societies deem to be true and good, and by the expressions they give to those convictions in language, literature, and the arts; by what individuals and societies are willing to stake their lives on.”
Source: The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God
“History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.”
Source: A History of Modern Britain
“History is entertainment for the wise and a confirmation for the doomed.”
Source: To Life from the Shadows
“History is everything in gardening: With a site, weather, a particular plant. It solves mysteries. And it's why, when others say, "You can't do that!" you can know with deepest certainty that you can.”
“History is everything that has ever happened.”
“History is everything that's already happened, right up to the moment you read these words. That's a lot to tackle for one museum, but not to worry, there are hundreds.”
Source: Beyond the Halls: An Insider's Guide to Loving Museums
“History is fables agreed upon.”
“History is far more important than evolutionary theorizing as a reminder about human potential, because the historical evidence of change is so much more vivid.”
Source: The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution
“History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.”
“History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.”
“History is filled with dead op”
“History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.”
“History is filled with fictional people.”
“History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up,' Voltaire reportedly said. The observation refers to the argument that fortunes of nations or civilizations or societies rise and fall based on the character of their people, and this character is heavily influenced by the material and moral condition of their society. The idea was a staple of history writing from ancient Greece until it began to decline in popularity after the middle of the twentieth century.”
Source: The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
“History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.”
“History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.”
“History is finite-there's only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights)”
“History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.”
“History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.”
“History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.”
“History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.”
“History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.”
“History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.”
“History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.”
“History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.”
“History is full of examples of slaughter and victory.”
Source: Ebola K 2
“History is full of fraternal chaos: Romulus and Remus, Thor and Loki, Cain and Abel. It’s as if brothers are mythologically destined to clash.”
Source: The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
“History is full of great men who were too humble to allow themselves to be called great men. So instead, they pretended to be women.”
Source: Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast
“History is full of incremental improvements and revolutionary convulsions - often these are followed by reactionary backlashes in which rights are revoked, inequalities re-established.”
Source: Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in My Present and in the Writings of the Past
“History is full of instances of people who challenged the mighty forces of evil and they were not only fighting a lonely battle but were left alone to die.”
“History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!”
“History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again.”
“History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And because history never seems like history when you are living through it, it is tempting for us to think the same.”
Source: Pi in the sky: counting, thinking, and being
“History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.”
“History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.”
“History is full of surprises.”
“History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.”