H Quotes
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“History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened the struggle in a revolutionary way. Man now seeks to understand, and act on, not only his environment, but himself; and this has added, so to speak, a new dimension to reason and a new dimension to history.”
Source: What is history?: the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961
“History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.”
“History is the memory of a nation”
“History is the memory of things said and done.”
Source: Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life
“History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.”
Source: Travels and works
“History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.”
“History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.”
“History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.”
Source: The Tender Bar: A Memoir
“History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.”
“History is the new poetry.”
“History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.”
“History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.”
Source: Outline of the Principles of History
“History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.”
“History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.”
Source: CLIO A MUSE AND OTHER ESSAYS
“History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.”
“History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.”
“History is the propaganda of the victors.”
Source: Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel
“History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.”
“History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.”
Source: Voltaire's Alphabet of wit
“History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.”
“History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.”
Source: Sept. 1964-May 1949
“History is the record of our actions that can't be undone.”
Source: Quantraz
“History is the revelation of Providence.”
Source: Select speeches, condensed and abridged, with Kossuth's express sanction, by F. W. Newman
“History is the same thing over and over again.”
“History is the school of statesmanship.”
“History is the science of people.”
“History is the science of things which are not repeated.”
“History is the science of what never happens twice.”
“History is the seed bed of the future.”
Source: Say Yes to Your Life: Daily Meditations for Alcoholics and Addicts
“History is the self-consciousness of humanity.”
“History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position.”
Source: The Gateway to History
“History is the shank of the social sciences.”
“History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.”
“History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.”
“History is the siren song of the soul.”
“History is the story of events, with praise or blame.”
Source: Magnalia Christi Americana, books I and II
“History is the story of warfare between secret societies.”
“History is the story of what led up to now. It is the present that interests us—that and the future. The future will be partly determined by the present. Thus, you can learn something about the future, too, from a historian, even from one who like Thucydides lived more than two thousand years ago. Let us sum up these two suggestions for reading history. The first is: if you can, read more than one history of an event or period that interests you. The second is: read a history not only to learn what really happened at a particular time and place in the past, but also to learn the way men act in all times and places, especially now.
[How to Read a Book (1972), P. 236]”
“History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.”
“History is the study of the world's crime”
“History is the sum of the people living it.”
Source: Change is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World
“History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.”
“History is the teacher of life”
“History is the third parent.”
Source: The Blind Man's Garden
“History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We cannot join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience.”
“History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.”
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”
“History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.”
“History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.”
“History is the zoology of the human race.”