History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. History and Historians. – Edward Gibbon
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. – Winston Churchill
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. – Rudyard Kipling
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. – Karl Marx
Anyone who believes you can’t change history has never tried to write his memoirs. – David Ben Gurion
On human stupidity: It is one of the most powerful forces that shape history. – Yuval Noah Harari
Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always. – Mahatma Gandhi
If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. – Michael Crichton
Study the past if you would define the future. – Confucius
Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it. – Peter Lamborn Wilson
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. – Dean Kamen
History is only a confused heap of facts. – Lord Chesterfield
Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. – Edmund Burke
Forget about the history, make the history.
History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took. – Robin Hobb
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes. -Adolf Hitler
So much of history is mystery. We don’t know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life. – Amy Tan
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. – Alexander Pope
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. – Aldous Huxley
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