Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis de Bernieres

History is the propaganda of the victors.

Napoleon Bonaparte

History is written by the winners.

Norman O. Brown

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

Emile M. Cioran

History proves nothing because it contains everything.

Emile M. Cioran

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

Hippolyte Taine

After the collection of facts, the search for causes.

Hilary Mantel

History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.

Henry Ward Beecher

The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.

Henry L. Stimson

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

Henry James

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Henry James

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

John Henrik Clarke

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.

John Harington

Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.

That might be the first time in school history we're 5-0, but I can't say that for sure.

That's a lot. It was one of the most we've made in my history.

Brodie Croyle

That's all we talked about all week, that we could make history.

Elbert Hubbard

History: a collection of epitaphs.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

a remarkable moment in the history of Macedonia.

As he pointed out, there's a history of things with him - not just the fight. But I think there will be a lot of teams that will have an interest in him at some level.

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.

Janet Fitch

As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.

Norfolk has a wonderful history and reputation, but this is part of the total 'Way Forward' turnaround strategy.

After Kris Johnson, all our pitchers pitched like they were scared. I don't know why. We were quite an embarrassment tonight, to the whole program and the history and tradition of our program.

Anthony LaPaglia

And when you started looking into Roger East, it was almost like he had disappeared from history.

Preval has to turn history upside down in Haiti.

Tyler Cowen

Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the history of this country.