Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
History Quotes
Before us men have flourished just as we now flourish: others yet again shall be, whose generations we shall never see.
Journalism is merely history’s first draft.
The History of Civilization, in one sentence: They lived and loved and made beautiful things.
History is what enables each nation to use the other fellow’s past record as an alibi.
And how fascinating history is – the long, variegated pageant of man’s still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.
History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.
Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed, – render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
Tain’t people’s ignorance that does so much harm; ’tis their knowin’ so much that ain’t so.
