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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Francis Bacon History 1,360
History is Philosophy teaching by examples. Thucydides History 774
History never looks like history when you are living through it. John W. Gardner History 620
The history of mankind is his character. Johann von Goethe History 586
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. George Orwell history 491
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Marcus Garvey History 402
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. Karl Marx History 378
You have to know the past to understand the present. Carl Sagan History 362
I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. Ken Burns History 330
Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry. Ted Nugent History 312
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. George Orwell History 299
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. Jon Meacham History 283
The history of mankind is a history of war. Mike Love History 259
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. George Santayana History 257
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. Oscar Wilde History 245
History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal. Mark Twain History 240
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. Benito Mussolini History 238
I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term. Robert Caro History 238
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. Napoleon Bonaparte History 237
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. Lord Acton History 220
Sometimes - history needs a push. Vladimir Lenin History 211
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given, and transmitted from the past. Karl Marx History 207
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. Henry James History 205
History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided. Konrad Adenauer History 201
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: President Can't Swim. Lyndon B. Johnson History 197
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. Alexis de Tocqueville History 195
History is written by the victors. Winston Churchill History 189
The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly. Jean Piaget History 186
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. David McCullough History 182
A generation which ignores history has no past-and no future. Robert A. Heinlein History 178
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. Robert A. Heinlein History 173
Never forget the importance of history. To know nothing of what happened before you took your place on earth, is to remain a child for ever and ever. Source Unknown History 171
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. Charles Darwin History 165
President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage. Ken Salazar History 163
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead. Voltaire (Fran History 160
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. Ambrose Bierce History 159
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. Karl Marx History 157
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. Karl Marx History 156
Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Karl Marx History 153
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. George Santayana History 150
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. Napoleon Bonaparte History 149
You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living. Ken Burns History 148
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. John Quincy Adams History 146
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons history has to teach. Aldous Huxley History 142
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. Friedrich Hegel History 141
I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it. Kanye West History 140
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. W. H. Auden History 139
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. Hermann Hesse History 137
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. Robert Orben History 134
Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them. Norodom Sihanouk History 132

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