41 Quotes by History

All our knowledge is symbolic.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today’s laurels are tomorrow’s compost.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

We had to do what we had to do – Britain is great again.