History Quotes

If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.

Theodore White

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The happiest hours of mankind are recorded on the blank pages of history.

Thomas Carlyle

People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.

Aristide Briand

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

Thomas Carlyle

Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.

Thomas A. Bailey

More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations.

John Barth

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

W. H. Auden

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

Katharine Anthony

History is a vast early warning system.

Norman Cousins

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Plato

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Mark Twain

History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided.

Konrad Adenauer