History Quotes

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. (Harry S. Truman)
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Ideas shape the course of history. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
History is Philosophy teaching by examples. View quote
Thucydides
There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. View quote
Clarence Darrow
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. View quote
Aldous Huxley
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. View quote
Philip Guedalla
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Human history in essence is the history of ideas. (H. G. Wells)
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Revolutions are the locomotives of history. View quote
Karl Marx
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. View quote
George Eliot
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. View quote
Ronald Reagan
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. View quote
Charles Darwin
The history of liberty is a history of resistance. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. View quote
Henry James
The history of the world is but the biography of great men. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. (H. G. Wells)
All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds. View quote
Richard Brautigan
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. View quote
Dave Barry
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