Quotes on Great History

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.