“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.”
— Aldous Huxley
Author: Aldous Huxley
Category: history
Tags: history, Aldous Huxley
“If you think you have it tough, read history books.”
— Bill Maher
Author: Bill Maher
Category: history
Tags: history, Bill Maher
“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Category: history
Tags: history, Theodore Roosevelt
“The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.”
— Edwin Powell Hubble
Author: Edwin Powell Hubble
Category: history
Tags: history, Edwin Powell Hubble
“You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.”
— David Hockney
Author: David Hockney
Category: history
Tags: history, David Hockney
“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.”
— David McCullough
Author: David McCullough
Category: history
Tags: history, David McCullough
“Most of us get our history through story.”
— Yann Martel
Author: Yann Martel
Category: history
Tags: history, Yann Martel
“The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.”
— Mao Zedong
Author: Mao Zedong
Category: history
Tags: history, Mao Zedong
“I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.”
— Richard M. Nixon
Author: Richard M. Nixon
Category: history
Tags: history, Richard M. Nixon
“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.”
— James A. Baldwin
Author: James A. Baldwin
Category: history
Tags: history, James A. Baldwin
“To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.”
— Hermann Hesse
Author: Hermann Hesse
Category: history
Tags: history, Hermann Hesse