History Quotes
+7A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
- George Santayana
+3History is a useless heap of facts.
- Lord Chesterfield
+3History is the invention of historians.
- Napoleon
+3History is a myth that men agree to believe.
- Napoleon
+3Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+3History is little else than a long succession of useless cruelties.
- Voltaire
+3History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.
- Voltaire
+1History is more or less bunk.
- Henry Ford
+1Any time gone by was better.
- Jorge Manrique
+1Happy people have no history.
- Leo Tolstoy
+1History is a great dust heap.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1History, a distillation of rumor.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1History is not a science; it is a method.
- Charles Seignobos
+1History is a science, no more and no less.
- J. B. Bury
+1Nothing falsifies history more than logic.
- Guizot
+1The past is always a rebuke to the present.
- Robert Penn Warren
+1There is properly no history, only biography.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1History is the self consciousness of humanity.
- Droyson
+1History is the memory of things said and done.
- Carl L. Becker
+1Nothing capable of being memorized is history.
- R. G. Collingwood
+1The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
- Mark Twain
+1History is interim reports issued periodically.
- Anonymous
+1The past does not influence me; I influence it.
- Willem Kooning
+1All modern wars start in the history classroom.
- Anonymous
+1History is still in large measure poetry to me.
- Jakob Burckhardt
+1From time to time historians need to be shocked.
- Peter Burke
+1History teaches everything including the future.
- Lamartine
+1History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1History is the most difficult of all the sciences.
- Fustel Coulanges
+1History is something that happens to other people.
- Anonymous
+1History is the science of what never happens twice.
- Paul Valery
+1In mass societies, myth takes the place of history.
- William Bosenbrook
+1History is a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells
+1History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.
- William Carlos Williams
+1History must be written of, by and for the survivors.
- Anonymous
+1History without politics descends to mere Literature.
- John Robert Seely
+1History is ultimately more important than its singers.
- Michael Harrington
+1This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
- Agathon
+1Man in a word has no nature; what he has. ..is history.
- Jose Ortega Gasset
+1The history of the world is the world’s court of justice.
- Friedrich Schiller
