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A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
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Robert Heinlein
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A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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19 votes
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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Oscar Wilde
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Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
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Henry Vaughan
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.
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Source Unknown
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
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Abraham Lincoln
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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He is the purest figure in history. [About George Washington]
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William E. Gladstone
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Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.
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H. L. Mencken
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Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
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Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
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19 votes
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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Anatole France
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History is a better guide than good intentions.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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H.G. Wells
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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George Santayana
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History is but a confused heap of facts.
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Lord Chesterfield
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46 votes
History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
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Voltaire
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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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Edward Gibbon
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History is more or less bunk.
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Henry Ford
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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
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Voltaire
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38 votes
History is the devil's scripture.
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Lord Byron
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History is the distillation of rumor.
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Thomas Carlyle
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13 votes
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
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Philip Guedalla
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22 votes
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
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Clarence Darrow
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27 votes
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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H.G. Wells
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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H.G. Wells
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14 votes
Might does not make right, it only makes history.
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Jim Fiebig
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11 votes
Our best history is still poetry.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Gustave Flaubert
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22 votes
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
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Edmund Burke
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30 votes
Study men, not historians.
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Harry S Truman
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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Marcus T. Cicero
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24 votes
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
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James A. Froude
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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
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Karl Marx
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The history of mankind is his character.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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27 votes
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
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Ernest Dimnet
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21 votes
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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Thomas Carlyle
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11 votes
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Otto Von Bismarck
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The men who make history have not time to write it.
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Klemens Von Metternich
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8 votes
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
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Friedrich Hegel
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The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
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R. Buckminster Fuller
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The Thames is liquid history.
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John Burns
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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Thomas Carlyle
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There is a history in all men's lives.
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William Shakespeare
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Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
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African Proverb
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While we read history we make history.
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George William Curtis
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