History Quotes

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

If you write a post and put it on a blog, that's a historical document. If you change your template, then that entry looks completely different. It's the same words, but not the same meaning. This all depends on what historical questions that people will be asking and we can't know what they will want.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.

For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.

Some people make headlines while others make history.

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

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

History is more or less bunk.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.