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.
History does not produce definitive answers for all time. It is a process.
I predict it will come to be seen as a turning point in the history of psychology.
Like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for.
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.
The first recorded date in European history is 776 B.C., the date of the first Olympic Games.
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
Hegel is correct: we learn from history that we cannot learn from it.
Donald Trump’s hold on history loosened, and may be breaking.