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History

«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.»
«An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.»
«A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.»
Author: Robert Heinlein | About: Generations, History | Keywords: ignores
«A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind»
«A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.»
«Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard»
«Assassination has never changed the history of the world»
«Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.»
«Blood alone moves the wheels of history.»
Author: Martin Luther (Priest, Scholar) | About: History | Keywords: wheels
«Biography is the only true history»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Biography, History | Keywords: biography

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