H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“History is so full of high-level intelligence officials who actually worked for the other side that one is forced to conclude that whether or not top intelligence jobs attract the disloyal, they surely offer incentives to disloyalty.”
“History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.”
Source: The Lessons of History
“History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there.”
“history is something you look back on, not something you really feel at the time. In the moment, you're just... living.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“History is still in large measure poetry to me.”
“History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.”
“History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world have a chance for it.”
Source: Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of
“History is sympathetic to its authors.”
“History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.”
Source: Faith of Our Fathers
“History is taught so that we don’t repeat the mistakes committed by the greats of the past.”
Source: The Imperfect
“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”
Source: The Sense of an Ending
“History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby invests with a deeper reality.”
Source: Form and actuality
“History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.”
“History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.”
Source: The Light Between Oceans: A Novel
“History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind.”
“History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.”
Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.”
“History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a story without an argument fades into antiquarianism; an argument without a story risks pedantry. Writing history requires empathy, inquiry, and debate. It requires forswearing condescension, cant, and nostalgia. The past isn’t quaint. Much of it, in fact, is bleak.”
Source: The Story of America: Essays on Origins
“History is the autobiography of a madman.”
“History is the best guide to the future.”
“History is the biography of murderers.”
“History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.”
“History is the collective and ancestral shit of the human race, a great big and ever-growin pile of crap. Right now we're standin at the top of it, but pretty soon we'll be buried under the doodoo of generations yet to come. That's why folks' clothes look so funny in old photographs, to name but a single example. And, as someone who's destined to be buried beneath the shit of your children and grandchildren, I think you should be just a leetle more forgiving.”
Source: Joyland
“History is the daughter of time.”
Source: The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century: The Religion of Rabelais
“History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.”
“History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.”
“History is the distillation of rumour.”
“History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.”
Source: Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition
“History is the essence of innumerable biographies.”
“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.”
“History is the footsteps of free men towards destiny.”
“History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.”
Source: Silencing the Past (20th anniversary edition): Power and the Production of History
“History is the gift of a map already written by those who authored the map in the very walking of it.”
Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“History is the gradual instant”
Source: Fugitive Pieces
“History is the great propagator of doubt.”
“History is the hallmark of humanity.”
“History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.”
“History is the highest form of narrative. I could not have invented what had happened, so I mostly stuck to the truth.”
Source: Divine
“History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.”
“History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.”
“History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.”
“History is the invention of historians.”
“History is the key to citizenship.”
“History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.”
“History is the laboratory of social science theories.”
“History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.”
Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
“History is the lie commonly agreed upon.”
“History is the lie. History's words stain otherwise pristine books, drops of inky poison frosted in sugared deception.”
Source: Mayfly Requiem
“History is the lies of the victors.”
“History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: