History Quote by Elie Wiesel

We should study history to know ourself.

— M. K. Stalin

The only history that matters is the history we know.

— Ezra Pound

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

— Noam Chomsky

if reason ruled the world would history even exist?

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Without history we are nothing, so it's worth finding out something about it.

— Keith Allen

Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.

— Ridley Scott

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

— Rita Dove

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

— Peter Greenaway

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

— Leo Tolstoy

I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less…

— Henry Ford

History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up…

— Howard Zinn