If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history and develop a real personal opinion about it.
Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Any history buffs, people who like religion, suspense and mystery mixed with history, or anyone who likes 'The Da Vinci Code,' needs to read Ken Follett.
I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.
From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.
Theological reflection takes place within history, but the history within which it takes place is an ongoing, open-ended process.
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.
When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.
It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.
