Life is one tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.
History Quotes
Give the historians something to write about.
History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.
And why is it that every time the time before has taught us nothing?
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been “great changes.”
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.
History is not always written in the blood of rolling heads. Paper is the equal to steel in the stuff of momentous events.
I have no history but the length of my bones.
The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.
