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.
It is vital for children to understand their past to avoid alienation from their history.
Today marks the beginning of a new chapter in the history of Kaduna State.
Work on Nigerian history, in particular, has now come of age.
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
Life cannot be destroyed for good, neither … can history be brought entirely to a halt.