Quotes by History The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it. Blaise Pascal lasts infinity history [H]istorians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous. Bob Stinson powerful imagination history What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides. Brendan Behan differences men history I counted them all out and I counted them all back. Brian Hanrahan combat aviation history My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them. Brigham Young may history people History does not usually make real sense until long afterward. Bruce Catton real long history Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come. Bruce Catton casualties war history Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery. Bruce Catton scrapbooking bridges history Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves. Bruce Catton soldier war history The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life. Bruce Catton southern war history The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States. Bruce Catton united-states war history We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We Are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute. Buenaventura Durruti cities heart history The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. Byron White amendments speak history historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics. C. V. Wedgwood historical research history A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation. C. V. Wedgwood historian doe history All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a danger. In much the same way healthy nations are interested in their history, but a morbid preoccupation with past glories is a sign that something is wrong with the constitution of the State. C. V. Wedgwood healthy history past History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents. C. V. Wedgwood political history way My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right. C. V. Wedgwood eye history years The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance; he is perpetually confronted with his own humiliating inability to interpret his material correctly; he is, in a sense that no other writer is, in bondage to that material. C. V. Wedgwood ignorance men history Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history. C. V. Wedgwood passion errors history «56789101112131415»
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