Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Weller

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

The input that we really need is any records or any information about the history of the property. Any information people can give to us is welcome.

Stephen Hawking

The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

The coincidences are high. He had a history of role play in relation to other films.

Milan Kundera

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

Marcel Proust

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal.

Khalil Gibran

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

The history of cooking is my passion, and cooking is my passion.

The history is immense down here. We're one year older than Germantown Avenue.

Chris Squire

The idea of 'Yes on Broadway' has come up. It would reflect the history of Yes.

Jacques Maritain

At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch the world was lost, and at each epoch it was saved.

Henry Adams

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

Henry Adams

History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

Henry Adams

Nothing is easier to teach than historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

Henry Adams

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

Henry Adams

History is only a value of relation.

Henry Adams

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

Henry A. Kissinger

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Manly Hall

Secret Societies have existed among all peoples, savage and civilized, since the beginning of recorded history... It is beyond question that the secret societies of all ages have exercised a considerable degree of political influence.

James Russell Lowell

History is clarified experience.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein

It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence.

Lucan

Not a stone but has its history.

Lord Acton

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

Lord Acton

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

Lord Acton

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

Lord Acton

To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.

John Buchan

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

Bruno Heller

You can't understand that period of history unless it shocks you.