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 genocide perpetrated against Tutsi is the history of Rwandans, it is the history of humanity.
You have to let your history and your process and your longevity speak for you.
Though almost erased from history, Chand Bibi’s brave exploits and her courage are part of folklore.
"To understand Africa is to confront the history that has shaped its present."