H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.”
“History would be far different
if we did not tend to hear God
most clearly when we think
He is telling us
exactly what it is
we want to hear”
Source: The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs – A Bold Critique and Call for Moral Consensus in an Era of Religious Terrorism
“History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.”
Source: Uglies
“History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.”
Source: Jan Christian Smuts: a biography
“History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.”
“History! Read it and weep!”
Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
“History's a resource.”
“History's greatest monster.”
“History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.”
“History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.”
“History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.”
Source: Tales for a stormy night: the collected crime stories
“History's long arc is different than the today's headlines.”
“History's one great lesson is that reactionaries are losers.”
Source: The Last of the Giants
“History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.”
Source: Critical Path
“History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards the German chancellor prior to the outbreak of war: We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation. . . .”
“History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a past in which nothing smells.”
Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel
“History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.”
Source: Carlyle Reader
“History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.”
“History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.”
“History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.”
“History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.”
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
“History, facts and truth are all Divine Products, and must prevail.”
“History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.”
“History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.”
Source: In the American Grain (Second Edition)
“History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.”
“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.”
“History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.”
Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
“History, in [Nietzsche's] view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot find them among his contemporaries. Without history the mountain chain of great men's great moments, which runs through millennia, could not stand clearly and vividly before me.”
“History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.”
Source: Henry viii
“History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents”
“History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.”
Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States
“History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.”
“History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.”
“History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.”
“History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.”
“History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn’t fit. And often that is quite a lot.”
“History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity.”
“History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.”
“History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.”
Source: The Old Regime and the Revolution: The controversial bestselling guide to the origins of the French Revolution
“History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.”
“History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.”
“History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.”
Source: Hope and Suffering
“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
“History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.”
“History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.”
“History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.”
Source: The Rock Orchard: A Novel