On human stupidity: It is one of the most powerful forces that shape history. – Yuval Noah Harari
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. – Dean Kamen
Anyone who believes you can’t change history has never tried to write his memoirs. – David Ben Gurion
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. – Mason Cooley
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. – Anatole France
Each one writes history according to his convenience. – Jose Rizal
History has repeated itself many times throughout the ages. – Billy Sheehan
The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history. – Vladimir Putin
Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand. – Karl Marx
Revolutions are the locomotives of history. – Karl Marx
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. – Karl Marx
Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled. – Karl Marx
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 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
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. – Margaret Thatcher
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
The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle
Forget about the history, make the history.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there. – George Santayana
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. History and Historians. – Edward Gibbon
History teaches us that war is not inevitable. Once again, it is for us to choose whether we use war or some other method of settling the ordinary and unavoidable conflicts between groups of men.
– Aldous Huxley
History repeats itself, and that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.
– Clarence Darrow
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
– Harry S Truman
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. – Alexander Pope
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
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes. -Adolf Hitler
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. – Victor Hugo
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. – Lord Acton
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. – Winston Churchill
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on… – Voltaire
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes. – Adolf Hitler
History is written by the winners. – Napoleon Bonaparte
History happens twice because people don’t listen at the first time.
There’s an old saying about those who forget history. I don’t remember it, but it’s good. – Stephen Colbert
Half of writing history is hiding the truth. – Joss Whedon
Study the past if you would define the future. – Confucius
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. – George Orwell
History will keep repeating until the lessen is learned..learn well
History is the science of what never happens twice. – Paul Valery
History is only a confused heap of facts. – Lord Chesterfield
The history of empires is the history of human misery. – Edward Gibbon
For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history. – Christopher Pike
Patterns repeat themselves in history. – Rick Riordan
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world. – Robert Penn Warren
You can’t be a full participant in our democracy if you don’t know our history. – David McCullough
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams. – Terence McKenna
What really happened doesn’t matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it. – Leila Sales
History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took. – Robin Hobb
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it. – Oscar Wilde
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