Quotes about History
We can still hear the voices that echo through history. Their message is as true today as ever. The people of Poland, the people of America, and the people of Europe still cry out "We want God."
— Donald Trump
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
— Pope John Paul II
When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.
— Erwin McManus
Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.
— John Ortberg
We also give up on the quest for truth when we marshal all forces—in exegesis and history as well as in philosophical, moral, and practical theology—to "discover" and corroborate predetermined dogmatic stances.
— Miroslav Volf
Philosophy is like science and unlike history in that it seeks general truths rather than an account of particular events, either in the near or distant past.
— Mortimer Adler
The first is: if you can, read more than one history of an event or period that interests you. The second is: read a history not only to learn what really happened at a particular time and place in the past, but also to learn the way men act in all times and places, especially now.
— Mortimer Adler
A good historian must combine the talents of the storyteller and the scientist. He must know what is likely to have happened as well as what some witnesses or writers said actually did happen.
— Mortimer Adler
Jesus won the war, and the rest of history is simply mopping up.
— Carolyn Custis James
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
— Malcolm X
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?
— JC Ryle
In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.
— Shimon Peres