Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
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.
India contains the whole history of philosophy in a nutshell.
History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
Buddhism is the most colossal example in the history of applied metaphysics.
In my view, Anglo-Irish history is for Englishmen to remember, for Irishmen to forget.
It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
If I had succeeded, I would have been the greatest man known to history.
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
This has been the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever.
A Race without the knowledge of its history is like a tree without roots.