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136 quotesHistory repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
History and Historians
Clarence Darrow
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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
Youth
Charles Dickens
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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
History and Historians
Ernest Dimnet
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Assassination
Benjamin Disraeli
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Biography
Benjamin Disraeli
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Inflation
William J. Durant
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A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
Poetry and Poets
Max Eastman
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Freedom
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
Decisions
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Change
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
Women
George Eliot
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All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
Minorities
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
Ideas
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Language is the archives of history.
Language
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our best history is still poetry.
History and Historians
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest man in history was the poorest.
Poverty and The Poor
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is properly no history; only biography.
Biography
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
Wine
Clifton Fadiman
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Might does not make right, it only makes history.
History and Historians
Jim Fiebig
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Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
Biography
Louis Fischer
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
History and Historians
Gustave Flaubert
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History is more or less bunk.
History and Historians
Henry Ford
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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.
Business
Henry Ford
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
Ability
Henry Ford
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
History and Historians
Anatole France
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun