“History teaches us many things. Most importantly, the things that made us who and what we are.” — Robert Bonville Copy Share Image
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. — Lee Simonson Copy Share Image
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The biggest weapon of mass destruction in history is the AK-47, not Iranian nuclear weapons. — Guy Lawson Copy Share Image
Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
I gotta tell you, Rickey Medlocke lived in some of the most magical years in this world's history. I lived in the… — Rickey Medlocke Copy Share Image
The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look… — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny. — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
“A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls.… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy,… — Clayton Moore Copy Share Image
“Throughout history the cross stands as a symbol of protest and revolt; protest against all claims, whether by religious or political power,… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I had read history too closely, read of Caesar and the Roman Empire. I had not noticed that in the books there… — Erik Christian Haugaard Copy Share Image
Humanity is creating an extinction event that will make every war ever fought a footnote to history. We belong to the only… — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography is destiny, respond the historians. War” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The history of the world which is still taught to our children is essentially a series of race murders — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different. — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption. — Evan Dando Copy Share Image
History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought. — Etienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
There's a lot of black history - my history - that I don't know about. — Alison Hammond Copy Share Image
“... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character.” — Cirilo F. Bautista Copy Share Image
Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“We are caught in a secret history, in a forest of symbols.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
