Famous Quotes
- History is a vast early warning system.
- Norman Cousins on History
- History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
- Arnold J. Toynbee on History
- History is always changing.
- Aung San Suu Kyi on History
- History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
- Ambrose Bierce on History
- History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
- Lawrence Durrell on History
- History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
- Daisaku Ikeda on History
- History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
- Naguib Mahfouz on History
- History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
- Edward Gibbon on History
- History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
- Enoch Powell on History
- History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
- Edward Gibbon on History
- History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
- History is more or less bunk.
- Henry Ford on History
- History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
- Will Durant on History
- History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
- Lord Acton on History
- History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
- Howard Nemerov on History
- History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
- History is Philosophy teaching by example.
- Thucydides on History
- History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
- Johan Huizinga on History
- History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
- Rosa Luxemburg on History
- History is the science of things which are not repeated.
- Paul Valery on History
- History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
- Konrad Adenauer on History
- History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on History
- History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill on History
- History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
- W. H. Auden on History
- History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.
- John Le Carre on History
- History never looks like history when you are living through it.
- John W. Gardner on History
- History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.
- Phyllis Schlafly on History
- History passes the final judgment.
- Sidney Poitier on History
- History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
- Vladimir Putin on History
- History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
- Clarence Darrow on History
- History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
- Joseph Conrad on History
- History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
- History should be written as philosophy.
- History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
- Thomas Carlyle on History
- History shows that there are no invincible armies.
- Joseph Stalin on History
- History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.
- Rick Warren on History
- History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
- B. R. Ambedkar on History
- History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
- Milton Friedman on History
- History takes time. History makes memory.
- Gertrude Stein on History
- History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
- Ronald Reagan on History
- History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?
- Jon Meacham on History
- History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
- Thomas Huxley on History
- History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill on History
- History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on History
- History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.
- George H. W. Bush on History
- History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
- Malcolm Muggeridge on History
- History's a resource.
- Laura Linney on History
- History, a distillation of rumour.
- Thomas Carlyle on History
- History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
- Maya Angelou on History
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