Famous Quotations About History

Here are some famous quotations about history. We have quotes made by Henry Ford, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Carlyle plus others.

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A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.

An historian is nothing more than an unsuccessful novelist.

Anyone can make history. Only a great man can write it.

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism?

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

History books which contain no lies are extremely dull.

History doesn't repeat itself - historians merely repeat each other.

History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

History is bunk.

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

History is the biography of great men.

History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

History would be a wonderful thing - if only it were true.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

On the whole history tends to be rather poor fiction - except at its best.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.

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