17 Quotations FoundID:1737
When you whitewash your home, leave a small patch bare
to remind you of the Temple's destruction!
[Tisha B'Av]
ID:2654
The concept of history is the product of Prophetism.
ID:2655
History is the study of other people's mistakes.
ID:2656
A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.
ID:2657
History is not merely the record of a string of occurrences. It is an attempt to seize occurrences in their pattern.
ID:2658
Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it.
ID:2659
The history of the world is the judge of the world.
ID:2660
History has no time to be just...She keeps her eyes fixed on the victorious, and leaves the vanquished in the shadows.
ID:2661
The historian's special interest in the Jewish nation is due to its being the only one that is met with at evey turn of history.
ID:2662
The history of the Jewish people is like an axis crossing the history of mankind from one of its poles to the other.
ID:2663
Blood and fire and pillars of smoke---Joel (Yoel) 3:3---this is the whole history of the Jews; the rest is commentary; study it.
ID:2664
To see in history a moral purpose and a task for a people on earth is a great discovery, far more important than the accounts of battles and intrigues that have plagued humanity from time immemorial.
ID:2810
Many pens are broken, and seas of ink consumed, to descibe things that never happened.
ID:2811
The Jews are God's stake in human history.
ID:1258
Research into the past, as an aim in itself,
without the 'present', is not worth a bean.
ID:1369
The philosophy of a nation is to be found
in its proverbs at times.
ID:1016
As the generation, so the leader;
as the leader, so the generation.