History Quote by Daphne du Maurier

“it is easy to see that history is truly written by losers with time on their hands and a protected academic position.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“History remembers those who wrote on its pages, not those who discarded them.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If there was a lesson to be taken from history, it was that men lived but never learned from”

— Alanna Knight

“There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by the privileged”.”

— Howard Zinn

“The reading of old books enables us to avoid becoming passive captives of the Spirit of the Age by keeping “the clean sea breeze…

— Alister E. McGrath

“And now the page before us blurs. An age is done. The book must close. We are abandoned to history. Raise high one more…

— Steven Erikson

“The history keepers will no doubt tell their own tale, and the priests another. It is the men's accounts that seem to survive a…

— Tosca Lee

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under…

— Karl Marx

“Living in the past, can only hold those who live there, as its prisoners.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

“The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual…

— Anonymous

“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted…

— Tudor Parfitt

“History is the guess of old men, sometimes they get it wrong.”

— Steven J. Carroll