Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it.
History Quotes
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.
Perhaps in time the so-called dark ages will be thought of as including our own.
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
History – its what those bitter old men write.
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.
The three-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
