The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.
History is: Fables agreed upon - Voltaire The biography of a few stout and earnest persons - Ralph Waldo Emerson A vast Mississippi of falsehood - Matthew Arnold A confused heap of facts - Lord Cheste...
History is more or less bunk.
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy and it always feels uncomfortable.
Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabia...
I never realized that there was history close at hand beside my very own home. I did not realize that the old grave that stood among the brambles at the foot of our farm was history.
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.
Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles bills and proclamations.
The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
History is the devil's scripture.
Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History and exp...
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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