The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
History Quotes
History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men […]
The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
The most important events in every age never reach the history books.
Revision is the lifeblood of historical scholarship. History is a continuing dialogue between the present and the past. Interpretations of the past are subject to change in response to new evidence, new questions asked of the evidence, new perspectives gained by the passage of time. There is no single, eternal, and immutable “truth” about past […]
Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
