--- title: "13 History Did Quotes by 13 authors" description: "Browse 13 History Did quotes by 13 authors. Discover the best History Did sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/942/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel_africa_africa-has-no-history-and-did-not-contri_1539843.jpg" --- > [Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that makind enjoyed...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel/africa-has-no-history-and-did-not-contribute-to-anything-that-makind/) [Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/942/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel_africa_africa-has-no-history-and-did-not-contri_1539843.jpg) > [“South African history did not start in 1652.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-wood/south-african-history-did-not-start-in-1652/) [Nick Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-wood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d3/nick-wood-98944_history_south-african-history-did-not-start-in-1_1439713.jpg) > [“biblical history did not take place in either the particular era or the manner described. Some of the most famous events in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-finkelstein/biblical-history-did-not-take-place-in-either-the-particular-era-or/) [Israel Finkelstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-finkelstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df2/israel-finkelstein-83870_bible_biblical-history-did-not-take-place-in-e_156651.jpg) > [ “\[He\] looked at her as though she'd lost her mind, and \[she\] had her first experience of men rewriting history. "I did… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jude-deveraux/he-looked-at-her-as-though-she-d-lost-her-mind-and-she-had-her-first/) [Jude Deveraux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jude-deveraux/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfc/jude-deveraux-12879_history_he-looked-at-her-as-though-she-d-lost-he_2147736.jpg) > [There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malala-yousafzai/there-are-so-many-figures-in-our-history-that-did-not-believe-they/) [Malala Yousafzai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malala-yousafzai/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e00/malala-yousafzai-808_believe_there-are-so-many-figures-in-our-history_2754617.png) > [“Kind of like the tree that falls in the forest when nobody’s around? I mean, if nobody remembers the history, did it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-johnson/kind-of-like-the-tree-that-falls-in-the-forest-when-nobody-s-around-i/) [Craig Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/753/craig-johnson-3716_history_kind-of-like-the-tree-that-falls-in-the_1308641.png) > [“We can better understand a thing when we know its history. How did it come about? Who if anyone invented or pioneered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-hoover/we-can-better-understand-a-thing-when-we-know-its-history-how-did-it/) [Gary Hoover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-hoover/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1d/gary-hoover-81241_history_we-can-better-understand-a-thing-when-we_707446.jpg) > [When I was in South Africa, I went for dinner with some friends, and I knew more about their history than they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harewood/when-i-was-in-south-africa-i-went-for-dinner-with-some-friends-and-i/) [David Harewood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harewood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8aa/david-harewood-9223_about_when-i-was-in-south-africa-i-went-for-di_2851411.jpg) > [“Why did Park Chung-Hee launch his political career in 1961 by lambasting Korean history? Why did he follow up two years later…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chong-sik-lee/why-did-park-chung-hee-launch-his-political-career-in-1961-by/) [Chong-Sik Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chong-sik-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/014/chong-sik-lee-227672_history_why-did-park-chung-hee-launch-his-politi_2672424.jpg) > [“I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/na-ama-yehuda/i-suppose-history-always-did-have-in-it-a-large-bit-of-the/) [Na'ama Yehuda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/na-ama-yehuda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b5/na-ama-yehuda-44898_history_i-suppose-history-always-did-have-in-it_1028548.jpg) > [“Time after time, history ran over the luddites and romanticists, those who sought to restore the old and delay the new. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-s-churchill/time-after-time-history-ran-over-the-luddites-and-romanticists-those/) [Winston S. Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-s-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d76/winston-s-churchill-9737_change_time-after-time-history-ran-over-the-lud_64428.jpg) > [It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact that men have gone to war and cut each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-parker-stacy/it-would-be-almost-unbelievable-if-history-did-not-record-the-tragic/) [Walter Parker Stacy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-parker-stacy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ca/walter-parker-stacy-286255_history_it-would-be-almost-unbelievable-if-histo_1174737.jpg) > [“What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good? Only good mind you. The rest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanislaw-lem/what-was-civilization-ever-really-but-the-attempt-by-man-to-talk/) [Stanislaw Lem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanislaw-lem/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b6/stanislaw-lem-7367_civilization_what-was-civilization-ever-really-but-th_306644.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history-did/#itemlist", "name": "History Did Quotes", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that makind enjoyed...", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel/africa-has-no-history-and-did-not-contribute-to-anything-that-makind/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/942/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel_africa_africa-has-no-history-and-did-not-contri_1539843.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/942/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel_africa_africa-has-no-history-and-did-not-contri_1539843.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/942/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel_africa_africa-has-no-history-and-did-not-contri_1539843.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that makind enjoyed...” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“South African history did not start in 1652.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Nick Wood" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-wood/south-african-history-did-not-start-in-1652/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d3/nick-wood-98944_history_south-african-history-did-not-start-in-1_1439713.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d3/nick-wood-98944_history_south-african-history-did-not-start-in-1_1439713.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d3/nick-wood-98944_history_south-african-history-did-not-start-in-1_1439713.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“South African history did not start in 1652.” — Nick Wood", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“biblical history did not take place in either the particular era or the manner described. 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Why did he follow up two years later by saying, “Our five thousand years of history was a continuation of degeneration, crudity, and stagnation” and “We should set ablaze all our history that was more like a storehouse of evil”?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Chong-Sik Lee" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chong-sik-lee/why-did-park-chung-hee-launch-his-political-career-in-1961-by/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/014/chong-sik-lee-227672_history_why-did-park-chung-hee-launch-his-politi_2672424.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/014/chong-sik-lee-227672_history_why-did-park-chung-hee-launch-his-politi_2672424.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/014/chong-sik-lee-227672_history_why-did-park-chung-hee-launch-his-politi_2672424.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Why did Park Chung-Hee launch his political career in 1961 by lambasting Korean history? 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People tend to make their own truth of what was right loom larger than other truths just as true but somehow less favorable to telling.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Na'ama Yehuda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/na-ama-yehuda/i-suppose-history-always-did-have-in-it-a-large-bit-of-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b5/na-ama-yehuda-44898_history_i-suppose-history-always-did-have-in-it_1028548.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b5/na-ama-yehuda-44898_history_i-suppose-history-always-did-have-in-it_1028548.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b5/na-ama-yehuda-44898_history_i-suppose-history-always-did-have-in-it_1028548.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. 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Churchill" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-s-churchill/time-after-time-history-ran-over-the-luddites-and-romanticists-those/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d76/winston-s-churchill-9737_change_time-after-time-history-ran-over-the-lud_64428.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d76/winston-s-churchill-9737_change_time-after-time-history-ran-over-the-lud_64428.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d76/winston-s-churchill-9737_change_time-after-time-history-ran-over-the-lud_64428.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Time after time, history ran over the luddites and romanticists, those who sought to restore the old and…” — Winston S. 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Only good mind you. The rest had to be shoved somewhere out of sight, under the rug. Which History did at times politely, at times police-ly, and yet something was always sticking out, breaking lose, overthrowing.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Stanislaw Lem" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanislaw-lem/what-was-civilization-ever-really-but-the-attempt-by-man-to-talk/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b6/stanislaw-lem-7367_civilization_what-was-civilization-ever-really-but-th_306644.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b6/stanislaw-lem-7367_civilization_what-was-civilization-ever-really-but-th_306644.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b6/stanislaw-lem-7367_civilization_what-was-civilization-ever-really-but-th_306644.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good? 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