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.
Women's History is indispensable and essential to the emancipation of women.
«History has a long patience, and wait centuries and centuries to condemn the defamation of men».
History doesn’t supersede evolution, it merely complicates it.
Either ghosts are a metaphor for history, or history is a metaphor for ghosts.
The fires of history burn hot and long, but memories of fires do not burn long enough.
Of course, I would like to go down in history as the man who brought peace.
Ideas are the cogs of history—and too often the barricades that stand in its way.
‘White’ history is moribund; but the ‘whites’’ history is not.
“Next to the history of Christianity, the scariest horror movie is comedy.”