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The dignity of history.
— Henry Fielding
The writing of history is largely a diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
— Frank Herbert
The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
— T. S. Eliot
Most of the history is a divine work of fiction.
— Kedar Joshi
Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.
— Goldwin Smith
I turn away from the smell of death, pressing my lavender scented handkerchief as tight as I can against my nose.
— Meghan Masterson
History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents
— Edward Gibbon
Historical exclusivity often has a way of turning into present and institutionalized tragedy. Whose story gets told matters.
— Aurin Squire
Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.
— John Cleese
The Day of Trouble is Near
— P.J. Parker
The question about the end bursts out of the torment of history and the intolerableness of historical existence.
— Jurgen Moltmann
A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
— Thomas Carlyle
History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.
— James A. Garfield
There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.
— Archibald F. Bennett
In my pursuit of historical ecology, I find the pleasure of reading history.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.
— George R R Martin
Jewish history is never simply about the Jews, but always about their relationship with the rest of society.
— Abigail Green
I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.
— Pete Sampras
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The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.
— Thomas Paine
Then, after picking up his papers, Pierre began: "A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but the uplift of a beggar!
— Ted Anthony Roberts
Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
— William Least Heat-Moon
It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.
— Emile Durkheim
Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest.
— P.J. Parker
Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.
— Albert Camus
Isn't one man's truth another man's lie?
— Amy Jarecki
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.
— Aristotle.
I refuse to believe the people of Texas and all Americans in the world have forgotten us.
— P.J. Parker
It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people
— Carlos Castaneda
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
— Daisaku Ikeda
Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.
— Thomas A. Bailey
We the People . . . The People of the Long House.
— P.J. Parker
He was wearing a little bag of "Mojo" around his neck.
— Nancy B. Brewer
The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.
— Harry S. Truman
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
— Edward Hallett Carr
In other words, history teaches us to avoid the brand of naive empiricism that consists of learning from casual historical facts.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
We are sitting on top of a vast cultural and historical pyramid of accumulated misconceptions, lies and myths, built one on top of the other.
— Bryant McGill
Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.
— Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Historical gap is created due to missing written records.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Men are the product of their historical experience, limited in their choices by who and where they are in history.
— Glenn Porter
Historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.
— C.V. Wedgwood
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
— Kate Mosse
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.
— Arthur Keith
Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures.
— Sara Sheridan
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.
— Elie Wiesel
History is the guess of old men, sometimes they get it wrong.
— Steven J. Carroll
No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.
— A.J. Muste
What I was caught up in, I dimly understood, was the embodiment of history
— Peter Cunningham
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
— Samuel E. Morison
The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Rumors are the children of truth.
— Danny M. Cohen
What about snipers?" I once asked someone. He said, "Oh, most of the snipers have automatic weapon. They arent very accurate.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.
— James Bryce
Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?
— William Wordsworth
Unbridled passion with an incredibly hot seven hundred-year-old Highlander in the middle of the night? Mm Yeah. Bring it on.
— Amy Jarecki
Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
