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“History, in any case, cannot be reduced to some sort of game of comparing misdeeds in different eras; each period must be judged in…

— Shashi Tharoor

“We should not be impressed when our leaders say firmly, "History teaches us" or "History will show that we were right." They can oversimplify…

— Margaret MacMillan

History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions…

— Henry A. Kissinger

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

— Will Durant

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

— Ben H. Winters

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one…

— A. J. P. Taylor

The evidence of history speaks with a single voice. I do not know any exception to the proposition that if you compare like with…

— Milton Friedman

“The hardest task for the historian… is to consider the evidence without prejudice. We all have prior agendas and tend to find what we’re…

— Christopher Evans

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are…

— Bill Watterson

It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.

— Leonard Krieger

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people…

— Bill Vaughan