Top history Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of history quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Bertrand Russell
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
- Bertrand Russell
Collection: History
Image of Ferdinand Marcos
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
- Ferdinand Marcos
Collection: History
Image of Alan Cohen
Our history is not our destiny.
- Alan Cohen
Collection: History
Image of Carl Sagan
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
- Carl Sagan
Collection: History
Image of Richard Brautigan
All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
- Richard Brautigan
Collection: History
Image of Arthur C. Clarke
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Collection: History
Image of Carl Jung
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
- Carl Jung
Collection: History
Image of Frank Waters
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
- Frank Waters
Collection: History
Image of Sarah Bernhardt
Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
- Sarah Bernhardt
Collection: History
Image of Morgan Wallen
I believe in God. I believe that He's real and I believe He has control over a lot of things and I think throughout history there has been a lot of countries that have turned their back on Him and the result is not great.
- Morgan Wallen
Collection: History
Image of Morgan Freeman
Black history is American history.
- Morgan Freeman
Collection: History
Image of Georges Clemenceau
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
- Georges Clemenceau
Collection: History
Image of Warren Buffett
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
- Warren Buffett
Collection: History
Image of Victor Hugo
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
- Victor Hugo
Collection: History
Image of LaMelo Ball
History is dependent on the new generation to write a new chapter.
- LaMelo Ball
Collection: History
Image of James Nasmyth
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
- James Nasmyth
Collection: History
Image of Thucydides
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
- Thucydides
Collection: History
Image of David McCullough
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
- David McCullough
Collection: History
Image of Patrisse Cullors
The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.
- Patrisse Cullors
Collection: History
Image of Mahmoud Darwish
History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
- Mahmoud Darwish
Collection: History
Image of Steve Rushin
History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.
- Steve Rushin
Collection: History
Image of Chris Stapleton
We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all those things that combine to make up the genre. It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned. It's fun to be a part of that and tip the hat to that. You know, and keep that tradition alive.
- Chris Stapleton
Collection: History
Image of Jefferson Davis
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
- Jefferson Davis
Collection: History
Image of Sonia Sotomayor
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
- Sonia Sotomayor
Collection: History
Image of Tariq Ramadan
Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.
- Tariq Ramadan
Collection: History
Image of Alton Brown
The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.
- Alton Brown
Collection: History
Image of Quavo
History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
- Quavo
Collection: History
Image of Steven Spielberg
Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.
- Steven Spielberg
Collection: History
Image of Lawrence Summers
In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.
- Lawrence Summers
Collection: History
Image of John Hersey
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
- John Hersey
Collection: History
Image of Lucy Larcom
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
- Lucy Larcom
Collection: History
Image of Friedrich Schiller
The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
- Friedrich Schiller
Collection: History
Image of R. D. Laing
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
- R. D. Laing
Collection: History
Image of Dave Barry
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
- Dave Barry
Collection: History
Image of William F. Buckley, Jr.
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Collection: History
Image of Arnold J. Toynbee
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
- Arnold J. Toynbee
Collection: History
Image of Novak Djokovic
We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.
- Novak Djokovic
Collection: History
Image of Steven Johnson
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.
- Steven Johnson
Collection: History
Image of Marsha P. Johnson
History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.
- Marsha P. Johnson
Collection: History
Image of Noam Chomsky
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: History
Image of Joe Biden
The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.
- Joe Biden
Collection: History
Image of John Coleman
Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.
- John Coleman
Collection: History
Image of Abba Eban
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
- Abba Eban
Collection: History
Image of Nikola Tesla
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
- Nikola Tesla
Collection: History
Image of Debi Mazar
The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.
- Debi Mazar
Collection: History
Image of Hans Kung
After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
- Hans Kung
Collection: History
Image of Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
- Gustave Flaubert
Collection: History
Image of Voltaire
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
- Voltaire
Collection: History
Image of Neil deGrasse Tyson
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Collection: History
Image of Ellen Tauscher
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.
- Ellen Tauscher
Collection: History