A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
History Quotes
Sometimes you can remember people by remembering what they saw. When people die they take so much with them, so many details already lost in the fog of senescence. I’m not just talking about family stories, but commonplace facts of daily life – the brand name of an obscure chewing gum, the sound a parking […]
The men who make history have not time to write it.
All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place. The largest section of the Records Department, far larger than the one in which Winston worked, consisted simply of […]
History is one of those few subjects about which practically everybody in a society – especially a democratic society – needs to know something… for the functioning of… any civilized society the mass of people must have some reasonable ability to read and write, some rudiments of humane literature, some simple mathematics – some historical […]
What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way.
(History) – An unremitting conflict between good and evil powers, of which every act done by any one of us, insignificant as we are, forms one of the incidents; a conflict in which even the smallest of us cannot escape from taking part, in which whoever does not help the right side is helping the […]
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change, and that passe’ abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
History is a better guide than good intentions.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
