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"Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day." »Stephen Jay Gould
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"history is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. history is a wind blowing where it listeth. history is no sure thing to bet on. history is a box of tricks with a lost key. history is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. history says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it." »Carl Sandburg
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"There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world." »Sir Karl Popper
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"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it." »Nadia Boulanger
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"The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning." »George Frost Kennan
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"history is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today." »Henry Ford
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"For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so ... for Jack history was full of heroes." »Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
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"A very ancient and fish-like smell." »William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 2 scene 2
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"I feel again a spark of that ancient flame." »Virgil
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"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these" »Ovid
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"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"history is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth." »E. L. Doctorow
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"Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out." »G. M. Trevelyan
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"What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it." »Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"history, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. history only exists, in the final analysis, for God." »Albert Camus
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"When you read history it is quite astonishing to discover that there never was a day when men thought times were really good. Every generation in history has been haunted by the feeling of crisis." »Harold Walker
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"Swindon What will history say Burgoyne history, sir, will tell lies as usual." »George Bernard Shaw
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"I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller." »Isak Dinesen, (Karen Blixen)
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"The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence." »John F. Kennedy
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"People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people." »Benito Mussolini
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"The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men." »E.M. Cioran
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"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita." »J. Robert Oppenheimer
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"Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions." »Robert Lynd
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"Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." »Michael McClary
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"The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits." »Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good--the atavism of a more ancient ideal." »Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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"history repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy." »George Macaulay Trevelyan
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"history does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history." »Kahlil Gibran
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