What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience.
History Quotes
History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells “Can’t you remember anything I told you?!” and lets fly with a club.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
History is merely gossip.
History is written by people who attend meetings, and stay until the end, and keep the minutes.
All our history… is no more than accepted fiction.
It is much more difficult to talk about a thing than to do it. Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
The thing we learn from history is that people do not learn from history.
The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not said.
What is history but the obituary of nations?
