God's wonders never happen in the spotlight of world history.
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.
Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, hoping it changes others.
I engage with history, with memory; I hover between two places, which is a way of forming insight.
I have many ancestors including Ibn Khaldun and other pioneers of our modern history.
"Culture gives my music a sense of history and makes my story more interesting".