The introduction of the Christian religion into the world has produced an incalculable change in history. There had previously been only a history of nations--there is now a history of mankind; and the idea of an education of human nature as a whole. --an education the work of Jesus Christ Himself--is become like a compass for the historian, the key of history, and the hope of nations.
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.
We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a few more forms.
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction
I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate professors.
The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.
Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs. But right now the pace is accelerating. It's faster we think than ever before in history. So as a consequence, we are not creating jobs at the same pace that we need to.
I think that the best movies are made, not from a point of view that depends on your personal history, whether it's the color of your skin or the politics that you had or the place that you come from, but from a point of view of an understanding of human nature, an understanding of history, and an understanding of what motivates people.
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
We're both [with Elie Wiesel] a long way from the position of the so-called Biblical minimalists. Some of them see no history in the Bible until Josiah.
I want to write for history, not for the moment.
There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.
Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.
There is room in history for all of us.