The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world. – Robert Penn Warren
The history of empires is the history of human misery. – Edward Gibbon
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. – H.G. Wells
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. – Margaret Thatcher
History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious. – Paul Valéry
The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle
History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever. – Emilie Autumn
Patterns repeat themselves in history. – Rick Riordan
Those of us who do not learn lessons from history will become assassins for the history that is yet to be recorded. – Ravish Kumar
History repeats itself, and that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.
– Clarence Darrow
Revolutions are the locomotives of history. – Karl Marx
History is written by the victors. – Winston Churchill
For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history. – Christopher Pike
Live out of your imagination, not your history. – Stephen R. Covey
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it. – Oscar Wilde
What really happened doesn’t matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it. – Leila Sales
History has repeated itself many times throughout the ages. – Billy Sheehan
We had the 1st and 2nd world war, but if we gonna have the 3rd then God never gave wisdom to humans. – Sipho P Nkosi
By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account. – Dan Brown
The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know. – Harry S. Truman
Copyright © 2006-2024 - Browse Quotes By Subject | Browse Quotes By Author | About Us | Blog | FAQ | Privacy Policy