We have learned that history is something that takes no…

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

— Thurgood Marshall

“Recent history takes a while to set. People really don’t know what just happened. They only figure it out later.”

— Sheri S. Tepper

History takes time. History makes memory.

— Gertrude Stein

“History is a drop in humanity’s bucket of time. The period we usually call “history” takes up the last five thousand years. By its…

— David W. Tollen

“Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.”

— Oscar Wilde

I love the ordered mind of history because it takes us out of the chaos, momentarily, and says, "Ah, so this is the story…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches and beside…

— Mildred D. Taylor

Yes, I learned history at school; I know everything about apartheid. My dad, he bought the books about it, stuff like that. But I…

— Caster Semenya

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

— Allen Ginsberg

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be…

— David Weber

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must…

— Edwin Land

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

— Douglas Brinkley

“I am both a realist and a student of History. Mankind has never learned from History.”

— Philippe de Montebello

[Judge and Jury] is outstanding. I have learned more about the history of baseball, true history, than from anything I have ever read or…

— Ralph Kiner