History Quote by G.K. Chesterton

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

— Steven J. Carroll

“Historians predict the past for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Men who dwell in the past are doomed to be conquered by those who see only the future”

— Jeremy C. Shipp

“I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Most of the great men who converted their time to products although late are still making more impact in the world today than a…

— Sunday Adelaja

“So there existed fathers who dealt in the present, who didn't drag ancient history around like a ball and chain. So there were men…

— Zadie Smith

“In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who…

— John Stuart Mill

“Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the…

— Eric Hobsbawm

“All the men in history who have really done anything with the future have had their eyes fixed on the past.”

— G.K. Charleston

“But there's time yet. The old women of the tribe have almost always been the wiser. If they keep their marbles long enough. Old…

— Jane Gardam

“history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging.”

— George R.R. Martin

“It is part of the fascination of the study of history that we often know more about what went on a hundred years ago…

— William Stewart Wallace 1932