H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“History is too important to be left to the historians.”
“History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.”
Source: The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
“History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.”
“History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.”
“History is ultimately guided by spirit, not matter.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.”
Source: Contemplation and Action, 1902-14
“History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.”
“history is what it is. it knows what it did.”
“History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.”
Source: The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair
“History is what the evidence compels us to believe.”
“History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.”
“History is what we choose to remember.”
Source: Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America
“History is what we read, write and think about the past.”
“History is where tensions were.”
Source: A Howard Nemerov Reader
“History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.”
“History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.”
Source: Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life
“History is written backwards but lived forwards.”
Source: Madam Secretary
“History is written by all sorts, victors, losers and neutral observers. Cliches are written by all sorts as well.”
“History is written by the dreamers, not the doubters.”
“History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.”
“History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.”
Source: Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
“History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.”
“History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.”
“History is written by the victors.”
Source: Proceedings of the International Churchill Societies 1992-1993
“History is written by the winners; strife to be one at all legitimate cost possible.”
“History is written by the winners.”
“History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield.”
“History is written by those who hang heroes.”
“History is written by those who win and those who dominate.”
“History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.”
“History is written by winners.”
“History is written from the perspective of the victor, but told in legends from the perspective of the just.”
Source: Just Rights : Why Justice Should be A Fundamental Right
“History is written with blood, sweat, and tears, and it is etched into eternity by the quiet endurance of courageous people.”
Source: Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave
“History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.”
“History is, as we know, written by the winners.”
“History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.”
“History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.”
“History is, indeed, an argument without end.”
“History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.”
“History isn't a seesaw. If you have a really bad regime on one side, the actions on the other side don't automatically become good. It doesn't work that way.”
“History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.”
Source: The Storyteller
“History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.”
“History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.”
“History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.”
“History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.”
Source: The Sense of an Ending
“History isn't through with me yet.”
“History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.”
“History isn’t something you study. It’s something you should just know.”
“History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.”