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.
In early history phobias might have provided the extra margin needed to insure survival...
I can’t appreciate someone else’s history if I’m forced to reject and feel ashamed about mine.
Leader Abdullah Öcalan
"What we analyse is not the moment but history. Not the person but society."
[Wikipedia is]one of the most effective organs of Establishment propaganda in history.
We are the party of the Union, and he is the most divisive president in our history.
Did ever the history of the intellect so little conceal so much?
Natural history studies are fun, rewarding and an invaluable source of information.
To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history.
Do something. . . Be aware. . . Learn from history. It can happen anywhere.