Just as philosophy is the study of other people’s misconceptions, so history is the study of other people’s mistakes.
History Quotes
All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.
In prehistoric times women resembled men, and men resembled women.
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.
The use of history is to give value to the present hour and its duty.
The history of the world which is still taught to our children is essentially a series of race murders.
I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age… has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.
It is not the literal past, the ‘facts’ of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
