H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“History is not hatred.”
“History is not history unless it is the truth.”
Source: The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference
“History is not just about dates and quotations. And it's not just about politics, the military and social issues, though much of it of course is about that. It's about everything. It's about life history. It's human. And we have to see it that way. We have to teach it that way. We have to read it that way. It's about art, music, literature, money, science, love - the human experience.”
“History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.”
“History is not just about words in a book, or merely stories of people long gone. History is a living story that exists alongside us. Every now and then, it is reinvigorated and becomes part of our daily lives.”
Source: Leader and Legislator: Seah Liang Seah
“History is not just cruel. It is witty.”
“History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.”
Source: The Invention of Wings: With Notes
“History is not just made of great events, but of secrets forgotten among the strings of an old piano in Palermo.”
Source: THE MAREC FREQUENCY: A Quantum Thriller: A legacy of history, science, and the echoes of silence
“History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.”
Source: The celestine prophecy: an adventure
“History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.”
“History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.”
“History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.”
Source: The Legacy of the Civil War
“History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.”
Source: History & imagination: essays in honour of H. R. Trevor-Roper
“History is not nostalgic art, but history is ibrah, lessons, that we can pull to the present, to prepare for a better future,” -105”
Source: Negeri 5 Menara
“History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.”
“History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.”
Source: Cast in Shadow
“History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?”
“History is not so much memory as collective evidence. It is what has happened, what is thought to have happened, what some claim to have happened. The collective past is fact and fabrication--much like our private pasts. There is no received truth, just a tenuous thread of events amid a swirl of dispute and conflicting interpretation. But... the past is real. This is simplistic, but also, for me, awe-inspiring. I am silenced when I think about it: the great ballast of human existence.”
Source: Ammonites And Leaping Fish: A Life In Time
“History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.”
“History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.”
“History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or dialectally - has a lot to do with whether we cut short or advance our evolution as human beings.”
Source: The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
“History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.”
Source: The Twilight of Self Reliance: Frontier Values and Contemporary America
“History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.”
Source: Reason in History: A General Introduction to the Philosophy of History
“History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.”
“History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier. History is memory; we have to remember what it is like to be a Roman, or a Jacobite or a Chartist or even - if we dare, and we should dare - a Nazi. History is not abstraction, it is the enemy of abstraction.”
“History is not ‘the use of information about the past for political purposes’, as the deceitful ‘scientists’ claim. History is the memory of the people of the past. About their beliefs, achievements, mistakes, and crimes. This is one of those abilities that distinguish us from animals.”
Source: The Outside Intervention
“History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.”
“History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."”
“History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is what we make of it; its moral use. By writing history, we can widen readers' thinking and deepen their sympathies in every direction. Perhaps history should show us not how to control the world, but how to enlarge, deepen, and discipline ourselves.”
Source: Heart Mountain
“History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.”
Source: Reflections
“History is not was, it is.”
“History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.”
“History is not what happened but what is written down”
“History is not what you think. It is what you can remember.”
“History is not written by those who make the history but by those who writes the history!”
“History is not written in the interests of morality.”
“History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.”
“History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.”
“History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.”
Source: A short history of decay
“History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.”
“History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.”
“History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.”
“History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.”
Source: The Essential Nietzsche
“History is now being documented in the moment through memes, and they shape our memories. I make them as if to say, "I was here, and I mocked this time and place.”
Source: 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
“History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.”
“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.”
Source: Age of Hirohito: In Search of Modern Japan
“History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.”
Source: Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
“History is often told through grand events and famous names. I wanted to tell a story about the people who rarely make the headlines—the ones who got up every day, did the work in front of them, and quietly moved the world forward one field, one family, one small-town decision at a time.”
Source: The Ordinary Grit: Courage Under an Unforgiving Sky
“History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.”
Source: Force and Freedom: Reflections on History