History Quotes

History is Philosophy teaching by examples. (Thucydides)
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Human history in essence is the history of ideas. View quote
H. G. Wells
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. View quote
Clarence Darrow
The history of the world is but the biography of great men. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Revolutions are the locomotives of history. View quote
Karl Marx
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. View quote
H. G. Wells
All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds. View quote
Richard Brautigan
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. View quote
George Eliot
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. View quote
Henry James
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. (Virginia Woolf)
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. View quote
Aldous Huxley
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. View quote
Philip Guedalla
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. View quote
Dave Barry
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. (Karl Marx)
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me. View quote
Fidel Castro
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. View quote
Kofi Annan
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld