Quotes on History

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

Men make history, not the other way around.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.