History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
History Quotes
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. (96-180 A.D.)
History is a tissue of agreed-upon lies.
There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We’re in science fiction now.
History is more or less bunk.
The lesson we learn from history is, This is what people are like.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
He who does not know how to give himself an account of three thousand years may remain in the dark, inexperienced, and live from day to day.
I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.
