Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Palahniuk

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

Christopher Paolini

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.

Andrew Marr

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

Clifton Fadiman

We are all citizens of history.

David Frum

One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.

Ambrose Bierce

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

Albert Camus

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Albert Camus

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

Anthony Anderson

It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers.

Andrew Roberts

With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans wish to project their historical guilt on to someone else.

Anais Nin

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

Noam Chomsky

The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Ridley Scott

Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.

Robert Frost

One age is like another for the soul.

Susan Sontag

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them ...

Susan Sontag

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter.

Thomas Jefferson

We might have been a free and great people together.

Thomas Jefferson

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

Simon Schama

Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.

Simon Schama

The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England needed a successor to Oliver Cromwell.

Thomas Carlyle

History: A distillation of rumor.

Thomas Carlyle

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

Thomas Carlyle

What is all knowledge except recorded experience, and a product of history?

Thomas Carlyle

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

Thomas Carlyle

History is the distillation of rumour.

Thomas Carlyle

History is the new poetry.

Thomas Carlyle

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

Thomas Carlyle

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

Thomas Carlyle

Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

Romain Rolland

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

Toni Morrison

My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.