History Quotes

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Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Oscar Wilde ::
Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, (1854-1900).

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There is properly no history; only biography.

Ralph Waldo Emerson ::
American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, (1803-1882).

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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

Oscar Wilde ::
Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, (1854-1900).

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To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

Mahatma Gandhi ::
Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, (1869-1948).

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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

George Bernard Shaw ::
Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, (1856-1950).

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You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Maya Angelou ::
American Poet ( 1928- )

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History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes.

Mark Twain ::
American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. (1835-1910).

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The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

Mahatma Gandhi ::
Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, (1869-1948).

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey ::
Writer ( 1932 -

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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

Oscar Wilde ::
Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, (1854-1900).