It is not acceptable that election winners interpret history. History should be left to historians who have a difficult task. They should try to avoid a one-sided or personal interpretation of history...
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
History n: an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
In essence the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
History is more or less bunk.
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
The past is a foreign country they do things differently there.
History doesn't pass the dishes again.
When the historian Charles A. Beard was asked about the lessons from history he said there were four: 1. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. 2. Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad wi...
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...
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.
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...
I have no history but the length of my bones.
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