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History-writing is not a visit of condolence.
— Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier
Lithuanian nation must be saved, as it is the key to all the riddles - not only philology, but also in history - to solve the puzzle.
— Immanuel Kant
Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?
— Robin Hobb
History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.
— Wallace Stegner
History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.
— Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges
Of that time, there is still much we do not know.
— Tom Bissell
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
— Golda Meir
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
— Bill Walton
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[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.
— Jacques Barzun
These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.
— Lucian Of Samosata
Your history is not your future.
— Jessa Slade
Indeed. But I was not thinking of his immortal soul, Matilda. I was thinking that history is chronicled by monks.
— Sharon Kay Penman
The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug.
— B.H. Liddell Hart
If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
— Robert Harris
History nowadays is not a matter of conviction.It's a performance. It's entertainment. And if it isn't, make it so. — Alan Bennett
History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?
— Alastair Reynolds
The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.
— Louis Moreau Gottschalk
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
— Saint Augustine
It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in havingan approach and not an area of its own. — Leonard Krieger
Do not mistake the history you have shared for the slightest understanding of what our marriage is, or how insignificant you are in comparison.
— Frank Underwood
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.
— Pyotr Kropotkin
The history of the mind is not a linear history. Each epoch has its "Age of Reason" and its "Fall." The
— John Knight Lundwall
History is not history unless it is the truth.
— Abraham Lincoln
Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun ... then my work here is done.
— Lauren Willig
The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.
— Michael E. DeBakey
Excellence is not a history, but a habit.
— Debasish Mridha
It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.
— James Russell Lowell
Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.
— Robert E.Lee
The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.
— Emmuska Orczy
Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things.
— John Clapham
Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.
— John Lewis Gaddis
A people without historyIs not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
Of timeless moments. — T. S. Eliot
The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.
— Francois Fenelon
I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.
— Nikita Khrushchev
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental ...
— D. A. Fisher
The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.
— Pyotr Chaadayev
History is nothing if not far-fetched.
— Albert O. Hirschman
Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.
— Carl L. Becker
Biology, list history, is not built with 'if's.
— Andrea Moro
History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.
— Henry L. Stimson
History is not just the lies of the victors; it is also the self-delusions of the defeated.
— Julian Barnes
History is not the pure past; history is a past interpreted from the present of the historian.
— Justo L. Gonzalez
There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.
— Robert M. T. Hunter
I did not, I could not and I will never invite Obote, ... This is because Obote is someone who made a lot of mistakes in our history.
— Yoweri Museveni
Natural history is not about producing fables.
— David Attenborough
History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.
— Allan Nevins
History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.
— George Carlin
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
— E. O. Wilson
Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de
— Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges
I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
— Felicia Day
an interaction is not a relationship; rather, a relationship is the remembered history of previous interactions.
— Kevin J. O'Connor
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.
— Bertrand Russell
The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.
— Lynn Townsend White Jr.
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
— Robert Kennedy
I wish I did not know parts of the past; I wish they had never happened. But the past is the past, and someone must remember, and speak of it.
— Robert Jackson Bennett
History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."
— Johann Baptist Metz
The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it
— Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.
— Richard J. Foster
There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
— Douglas MacArthur
It's not so much that history is simply cyclical, it seems to progress via recursive, repeated fractal patterns with minute variations.
— Grant Morrison
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
— Elias Canetti
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
— Bernard Baruch
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
— Oscar Wilde
Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
— Octavio Paz
It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.
— Moses Finley
It is not the neutrals or the lukewarm who make history.
— Adolf Hitler
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
— Harold Rosenberg
Hugo is a raven,and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I do not know nearly enough.
— Cassandra Clare
Our history is not our destiny.
— Alan Cohen
