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.
You can’t get a complete history of anything in two hours – particularly the slave trade.
It's not that women get written out of history - they never get written in
The "golden age" is the exception, normal history is "grey".
One of the answers lies in the country’s history of colonisation by two contending settler classes.
It’s incumbent on all of us to really struggle with OT history.
Looking at the history, most women were in agriculture but today more are taking up trade.
There is quite a lot to experience here about the history of Uganda.
"History will remember that they preserved their dignity and respectability."