Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
History Quotes
Carlyle leads by count, with Yuval Noah Harari, Will Durant and Isaac Asimov close behind. The sourced picks include Karl Popper’s claim in The Open Society (1945) that there is no history of mankind, only many histories of aspects of human life, and Oscar Wilde’s line from 1891 that anybody can make history but only a great man can write it.
The Churchill line “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it” is flagged as misattributed. What the notes give is his House of Commons speech of 23 January 1948, in which he proposed to leave the past to history, especially as he intended to write that history. A line on Anglo-Irish history credited to Shaw is flagged too, and the notes record the more common, punchier version of it.
The ultimate aim of historical writing is the bringing before us the whole truth.
History is a big word...History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.
History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.
Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.
Economic history is not politically correct. Many on the left therefore struggle with its findings.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much.
Whoever writes on world history, but not as a forensic history, becomes thereby an accomplice.
Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.
Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.
We should recognize that white male supremacy is a deep current in American history.
What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon.