6,230 Quotes About History

Anyone who speaks as if they were alive and knew what was going on hundreds, thousands, or even a millions of years ago is trying to brainwash you into believing their fantasy of how things were in the past..

With regard to the gospels, biblical scholarship has mixed-up theology with history, thereby turning the eschatology of the epistles into memoirs.

Reading history is like binge-watching the highlight reels from past seasons of current affairs.

He wishes he had a way of telling them that they can be part of transforming this new place into an old one, that sometimes being the one who etches the lines in the façade is as important as choosing something already weathered and worn.

History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at home on reality tv.

Dartmouth College has an established history of blatant incompetence with handling mercury.

The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from by blood. By keeping their GDP at home, the U.S. revolutionaries were able to bootstrap their nation into an industrial powerhouse. Now, it seems, their descendants are bent on ensuring that no other country can pull the same trick off.

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

Our life today is a history of tomorrow.