History and Historians Quotes
48 quotations about History and Historians
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
History is a better guide than good intentions.
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.
The men who make history have not time to write it.
Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
There is a history in all men's lives.
Study men, not historians.
Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.
Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Authors on History and Historians
African Proverb
Ambrose Bierce
Otto Von Bismarck
Napoleon Bonaparte
Edmund Burke
John Burns
Lord Byron
Thomas Carlyle
Lord Chesterfield
Marcus T. Cicero
George William Curtis
Clarence Darrow
Ernest Dimnet
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jim Fiebig
Gustave Flaubert
Henry Ford
Anatole France
James A. Froude
R. Buckminster Fuller