History Quotes

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Be careful what you wish for, Admiral. History is not always kind to its subjects.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

It’s important that we acknowledge our history and our mistakes so we don’t repeat them.

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.