History doesn't pass the dishes again.
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
Any event once it has occurred can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
History is the devil's scripture.
It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
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...
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.
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
Don't brood on what's past but never forget it either.
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.
After 15 years of work I have achieved as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower the unity of the German nation and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.
I began with the desire to speak with the dead.
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.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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