It is better to die in battle than to die as a secondary stepchild of history.
A nation that does not know its history is a nation of the blind.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
The entire history of relations between Moscow and Ukraine for more than 250 years, since the union of these two states, is a systematic, reckless, shameless, brazen destruction of the Ukrainian nation by all means, even to the point of erasing every trace of it, so that not even its name remains.
Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.
—Charlie Chaplin
It is quite the fashion to contemptuously contrast the pray-ers with the do-ers – forgetting that in the history of the church the real do-ers have been the pray-ers, that those who have done the most in the church’s history have been, without exception, men and women of prayer.
—R. A. Torrey
Our unfortunate geography and unfortunate history have ruined us.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
“In 1962, when I set up our office, I put seven items on the wall. Our art budget was $7, and I went down to the library, and for a dollar each I made photo copies of the pages from financial history…”
“Failing to understand the lessons of history more than anything is what dooms investors to be victimized repeatedly cycle by cycle.”
— Howard Marks
“Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried”-that is history. “He loved me and gave Himself for me”-that is doctrine.
—J. Gresham Machen
“Christ died”-that is history; “Christ died for our sins”-that is doctrine.
—J. Gresham Machen
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
—Voltaire
It is quite the fashion to contemptuously contrast the pray-ers with the do-ers – forgetting that in the history of the church the real do-ers have been the pray-ers, that those who have done the most in the church’s history have been, without exception, men and women of prayer.
—R. A. Torrey
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
—Aldous Huxley
The spirit of a nation is reflected in its history, its religion, and the degree of its political freedom.
—Georg Hegel
We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
—Georg Hegel
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
—George Orwell
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.
—Georg Hegel
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
—Charles Darwin
History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.
—Georg Hegel
Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.
—Charlie Chaplin
World history is a court of judgment
—Georg Hegel
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
—Thomas Jefferson
The narration of the facts is history; the narration of the facts with the meaning of the facts is doctrine.
—J. Gresham Machen
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson
What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
—Georg Hegel
History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
—Georg Hegel
“Here is the history of the grass:
1. Sown
2. Grown
3. Blown
4. Mown
5. Gone;
and the history of man is not much more.”
— Charles Spurgeon
After all, there are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
—Charlie Chaplin
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
—Aristotle