| "history is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. history is a wind blowing where it listeth. history is no sure thing to bet on. history is a box of tricks with a lost key. history is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. history says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it." »Carl Sandburg |
| "There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world." »Sir Karl Popper |
| "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it." »Nadia Boulanger |
| "The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning." »George Frost Kennan |
| "history is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today." »Henry Ford |
| "For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so ... for Jack history was full of heroes." »Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis |
| "history is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth." »E. L. Doctorow |
| "What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it." »Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
| "history, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. history only exists, in the final analysis, for God." »Albert Camus |
| "Swindon What will history say Burgoyne history, sir, will tell lies as usual." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "When you read history it is quite astonishing to discover that there never was a day when men thought times were really good. Every generation in history has been haunted by the feeling of crisis." »Harold Walker |
| "People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| "history repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy." »George Macaulay Trevelyan |
| "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century." »Dan Quayle |
| "history does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach." »Aldous Huxley |
| "history never looks like history when you are living through it." »John W. Gardner |
| "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them." »Thomas Sowell |
| "We are all citizens of history." »Clifton Paul Fadiman |
| "The only new thing is history we don't know." »Harry S Truman |
| "We learn from history that we do not learn from history." »Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
| "history is more or less bunk." »Henry Ford |
| "What is history but a fable agreed upon." »Napoleon Bonaparte |
| "Live out of your imagination, not your history." »Stephen Covey |
| "Each one writes history according to his convenience." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." »Virginia |
| "history is the unfolding of miscalculation." »Barbara Tuchman |
| "Ideas shape the course of history." »John Maynard Keynes |
| "history is fables agreed upon." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
