Quotes for History

History is more or less bunk.

Henry Ford

I let the American people down.

Richard M. Nixon

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

Haruki Murakami

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

Any time a country transitioned to a fiat currency, they collapsed. That's just world history; you don't have to know about cryptocurrency to know that.

Nipsey Hussle

I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.

Lando Norris

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

W. H. Auden

The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant.

Dallas Willard

I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.

B. F. Skinner

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Jean-Paul Sartre

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

Philip Zimbardo

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Thomas Huxley

As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.

Zachary Taylor

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

Richard P. Feynman

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Noam Chomsky

I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.

Elie Wiesel

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.

Joseph Brodsky