Ancestor Quote by Claude Vorilhon

History is a condensation of all of our greatest triumphs and all of our worst mistakes. Perhaps,by studying,it we can better ourselves as a…

— Albert Ong

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

“History is nothing but the lies we tell about our ancestors”

— Robert Irwin

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

— Pierre Bayle

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

— Sandi Toksvig

History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We…

— Claude Bowers

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

— Ambrose Bierce

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

— Lawrence Durrell

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

— Anselm Kiefer

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

— Helen Keller

History is just new people making old mistakes.

— Sigmund Freud

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

— Dale Jamieson