Home / Topics / History Quotes

History Quotes

Browse 6202 quotes about History.

History Quotes

“We must consider how very little history there is--I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true; but all the coloring, all the philosophy, of history is conjecture.”

Mean Littles Real Philosophy Certain History Depends Kings Battle Conjecture

Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

“If you write a post and put it on a blog, that's a historical document. If you change your template, then that entry looks completely different. It's the same words, but not the same meaning. This all depends on what historical questions that people will be asking and we can't know what they will want.”

People Ifs Knows Want Writing Looks Different History Depends Asking Historical Posts Documents Blogs Entry

Author:Joshua Greenberg

“The advance of human freedom - the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time - now depends on us. Our nation - this generation - will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.”

“The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.”

Source: The People Of The Lie

“Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.”

Values Literature History Depends Checks Statements Generalization

Author:Ezra Pound

“The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.”

Action Energy Business Destiny History Conditions Health Depends Increase Chiefs Fulfillment Faculty American Dream Organisms Vitality Vigor

Author:Colin Powell

“Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.”

Way Trying Nations History Military Depends Democratic Terrorist Oxygen Publicity Hymns Iron Lady Nigeria Independence

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.”

Men Mean Doe History Depends Development Ideals Protection Conservation Usefulness

Book:Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist

Source: Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist

“[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the "school" to which the geologist belongs and on the objectivity of his investigations. Hans Cloos called this way of interrogation "the dialogue with the earth," "das Gesprach mit der Erde."”

Ifs Way Hands School Earth Science History Materials Depends Remains Silent Dialogue Investigation Objectivity Geology Interrogation Mit Geologist

Author:Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

“Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the second crossing the first, another person on examining these marks can tell unambiguously which was made first and which second, because the latter event irreversibly disturbs its predecessor. In virtue of the fact that most of the rocks of the earth contain imprints of a succession of such irreversible events, an unambiguous working out of the chronological sequence of these events becomes possible.”