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 history of India is a history of mortal conflict between Buddhism and Brahmanism.”
History has shown syncretism to the culture is a chronic ailment of the church.
A nation which is ignorant of its history cannot properly make choices about its future.
I think it's a significant event in the history of our country that the film was even made.
It is a sweet victory made even more special by the fact that it's history made by a woman.
The purpose of history is to know the past in order to adjust the Present and plan for the future.
It would be a performance to mark in our entertainment history.
Don't let anyone's narrow-mindedness define your path, break the barriers and make history.