- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.
- Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment in history, categories which are continually shifting and being named or renamed.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love researching all sorts of weird stuff. I always say, 'God help me if the FBI came across my Internet search history.'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Germans have an understanding of history and cannot allow themselves to forget it. It may be a curse, but in some ways, it's a blessing. It makes them cautious.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative.
- Jerusalem
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to write a history of Jerusalem.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020