history Quotes

“The important thing to understand about American history . . . is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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“HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

topic:wisdom science philosophy history poetry

“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

topic:writing greatness history

“This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:world change history

“The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire

topic:science history

“And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him...”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:happiness God history

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

topic:world history

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we...”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

topic:past present history

“History has informed us that bodies of men, as well as individuals, are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.”

― Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America

topic:history tyranny

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