- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
History Quotes
Personal history and the record we leave.
Quotes about "history" here move between the personal and the public — early museum visits that shaped a scientific mindset, and a family history full of preachers and former priests. For enduring, timeless sayings, see Long quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.
- Nov 07, 2020
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
- Art History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me.
- Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020