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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

— Aldous Huxley

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to…

— Aldous Huxley

The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write

— Michel De Montaigne

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends.…

— Karl Marx

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

— Tanith Lee

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

— Michel de Montaigne

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

— Aldous Huxley

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

“The course of history is determined not by battles, by sieges, or usurpation, but by the individuals. The strongest army is, at its most…

— Jim Butcher

Men make history. History does not make the man.

— Harry S. Truman

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and…

— Abigail Adams

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from…

— Jacob Burckhardt