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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

[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

Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended. — Peter Burke

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

as is done by the newest historians, we shall have the history of monarchs and writers, but not the history of the life of the peoples. — Leo Tolstoy

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

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt. — Mary Karr

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

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not. — Sara Sheridan

It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having
an approach and not an area of its own. — Leonard Krieger

Well, they may not be civilized, but they certainly are confident - and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature. — Thomas Cahill

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough. — Audre Lorde

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 history
Is 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

Christians throughout history have affirmed that lifelong celibacy is a spiritual gift and calling, not a path that should be forced upon someone. — Matthew Vines

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

It is revolutionary in the history of human thinking to imagine that the world is not built with solid bricks, but rather with vibration, energy. — Massimo Citro

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such. — Henry L. Stimson

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

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

Glance at the night sky and what you see is history and lots of it - not the stars as they are now but as they were when their light left them. — Bill Bryson

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

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not. — Jeanne C. Stein

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

History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things. — Sarah Churchwell

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

History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed. — Horace Walpole

Culture is the best society has to offer...How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan) — Beth Fine

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 a big word ... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate. — Antonio Tabucchi

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

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it. — Edmund Burke

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

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. — Ken Burns

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

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things. — Henry Ford

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

Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers. — Amish Tripathi

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

History is the past that is definitely, hopefully not coming back. — Boris Zubry

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

Happy-ever-after is a fairy-tale notion, not history. I know of no woman who escaped from Chelmno alive. — Jane Yolen

But man is not only made by history - history is made by man. — Erich Fromm

As a woman, as a lesbian, as a Jew, much of what I call history, others will not. But answering that challenge of exclusion is the work of a lifetime. — Joan Nestle

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner. — Claudio Magris