Condoleezza Rice Quotes

Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

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

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

I don't think you learn specific lessons from history, but you do learn proportion.

When we talk about people or a party being on the wrong side of history, it usually requires some hindsight, a position of informed advantage to see clearly missteps that were less clear at the time of events.

The beauty about history is that it's open to perception.

I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

All history is contemporary history.

History is contemporary. Your understanding of history confirms what you think of the present. It's not neutral. I would be very surprised if people with a different view of the present, don't take issue with my view of the past. I just hope that people deal with the content of the film.

A few years in the age of nations is nothing.

History is a never ending argument.

History is what we would make of it.

Today’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same.

Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it's getting worse.

The context of history proved invaluable.

History is an antidote to the hubris of the present.

I see things about the present more clearly when I'm looking through the frame of the past: I think it's very hard to assess the present moment that we are in.

History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.

You know, times change. That's why there are so many debates about who people think the greatest players of all time are.

I think a sense of history and perspective for our young people today is essential.