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136 quotesHistory is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
History and Historians
Voltaire
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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
Opinions
Voltaire
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The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
Story and Story-Telling
Mrs. Humphrey Ward
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More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
Uncategorised
Robert Penn Warren
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
History and Historians
H.G. Wells
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
History and Historians
H.G. Wells
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
History and Historians
H.G. Wells
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Accidents
Elie Wiesel
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
History and Historians
Oscar Wilde
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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Scandal
Oscar Wilde
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
People
Mao Zedong
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun