History Quotes

The historian has been the hearth at which the soul of the country has been kept alive.

John Morley

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

Alfred North Whitehead

History supplies little beyond a list of those who have accommodated themselves with the property of others.

Voltaire

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

John Terraine

There is nothing more dangerous than history used as a defense, or history used for preaching; history used as a tool is no longer history.

Marcel Trudel

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

Pieter Geyl

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler.

Henry Glassie

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

Hippolyte Taine

Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.

Mason Cooley

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

Augustine Birrell

History does not unfold: it piles up.

Robert M. Adams

Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

Edgar Saltus

What we take for the history of nature is only the very incomplete history of an instant.

Denis Diderot

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

George Bernard Shaw