A historian is a prophet in reverse.
History Quotes
Those who don’t study the past will repeat its errors; those who do study it will find other ways to err.
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.
History started badly and has been getting steadily worse.
All history is modern history.
History is politics projected into the past.
The historian works with documents. There is no substitute for documents: no documents, no history.
History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women.
History -that little sewer where man loves to wallow.
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
