Inspiring sayings and Practical Quotes about History
They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.
Longfellow
In a word, we may gather out of history a policy no less wise than eternal; by the comparison and application of other men's forepassed miseries with our own like errors and ill deservings.
Sir Walter Raleigh
The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Gibbon—Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
And read their history in a nation's eyes.
Gray—Elegy in a Country Churchyard.
The long historian of my country's woes.
Homer—Odyssey.
The contact with manners then is education, and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benj. Disraeli
Longfellow—Outre-Mer. Ancient Spanish Ballads.
And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.
Byron
What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History's purchased page to call them great?
Byron
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
Carlyle
History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.
Carlyle
What more would you have? He has invented history.
Madame Du Deffand of Voltaire
Carlyle
I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
Carlyle#
Happy is the nation without a history. Beccaria
Beccaria—Tratlato dei Delitti e delle Pene
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