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.
Our history and the facts show that immigrants are a net plus for our economy and our society.
It's 2017. This sexism must be consigned to history. Shame on the Daily Mail.
The College’s breadth and depth of talent and its very history were impressive.
All those whom history calls great
Left only empty names for us to venerate.
Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), Proposition 6.