History Quotes - Page 17

History is time, time history.

History plays for keeps; individuals play for time.

History is an amazing presence-it is the place where vanished time gathers. While we are in the flow of time, it is difficult to glean its significance, and it is only in looking back that we can recognize the hidden dimensions at work within a particular era or epoch.

History shows that people are as changeable as rivers.

There is time, and there is what is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time.

Knowledge is just a strong belief shared internationally that can be changed at any moment.

oh life to live, life already lived,
time that comes back in a swell of sea,
time that recedes without turning its head,
the past is not past, it is still passing by,
flowing silently into the next vanishing moment

Today can be better than the worse of yesterdays, but tomorrow can never replace the best of yesterdays.

Man ist am Himmel umgeben von einer Scheinwelt, die eigentlich schon längst Geschichte ist.

history beats in longer periods than a man's heart

we may say that History develops, Art stands still

A bad leader wouldn't stress the importance of staying together to stop the enemy. You want peace? You can't forgive the enemy, if you can't forgive your men for losing faith. You can't force every one single Union deserter to fight, but I know, only you can inspire every deserter to fight for their cause." - Amelia Raht

Kama unataka kuijua vizuri historia ya mwanamke hasa mwanamke unayetaka kuoana naye, usifanye naye mapenzi kwa miezi sita angalau. Ukifanya naye mapenzi kwa miezi sita au zaidi, au ndani ya miezi sita, halafu akakuchanganya kimapenzi, hutakuwa na uwezo mkubwa wa kuwasikiliza watu kuhusiana na historia yake.

Ukitaka kumjua mwanamke jua historia yake.

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid

A historian is a risk-terrified prophet.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader.