Quotes about History

“Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.”

“Bitcoin is amazingly transformative because it's the first time in the entire history of the world in which anybody can now send or receive any amount of money, with anyone else, anywhere on the planet, without having to ask permission from any bank or government.”

“We need to read history from the source.”

“Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.”

“If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.”

“Legend remains victorious in spite of history.”

“If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.”

“There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.”

“I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.”

“Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.”

“The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.”

“I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in this country. It's not taught enough in school.”

“The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.”

“For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.”

“If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.”

“If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.”

“Bitcoin is probably the most portable money in the history of the world. I can download any amount onto a thumb drive and walk across any border without any problems. Or, I could commit to memory a line of code that I can then input into the network and save or spend Bitcoins.”

“I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.”

“If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.”

“The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.”

“If you had to find a period in history that would equate to what the Internet has presented us with now, it would be Elizabethan England. It was a world in flux.”