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Quotes about history and historia

  • History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; Art has remembered the people, because they created. (Beard Charles A.)
  • Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. (Beard Charles A.)
  • All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. (Beard Charles A.)
  • If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. (Beard Charles A.)
  • History - its what those bitter old men write. (Beard Charles A.)
  • Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! (Beard Charles A.)
  • Revolutions are the locomotives of history. (Beard Charles A.)
  • We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. (Beard Charles A.)
  • More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. (Beard Charles A.)
  • Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. (Beard Charles A.)
  • To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. (Beard Charles A.)
  • The main thing is to make history, not to write it. (Beard Charles A.)
  • From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. (Beard Charles A.)
  • People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. (Beard Charles A.)
  • The Thames is liquid history. (Beard Charles A.)
  • God cannot alter the past, but historians can. (Beard Charles A.)
  • In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history. (Beard Charles A.)
  • History is the distillation of rumor. (Beard Charles A.)
  • Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. (Beard Charles A.)
  • The whole past is the procession of the present. (Beard Charles A.)
  • The history of the world is but the biography of great men. (Beard Charles A.)
  • For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future. (Beard Charles A.)
  • History is but a confused heap of facts. (Beard Charles A.)
  • Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. (Beard Charles A.)
  • For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. (Beard Charles A.)
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