Funny Quote by George Mosse

What man is, only his history tells.

— Wilhelm Dilthey

Men make history. History does not make the man.

— Harry S. Truman

The history of a man is in his character.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that…

— R.G. Collingwood

There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

— Camilo Jose Cela

“History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses…

— Friedrich Engels

“A man who don't know history, he don't know anything.”

— Edward Johnston

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man in a word has no nature; what he has. ..is history.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

— Adolf Hitler

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

— Boris Pasternak

History is told through the eyes of men about men.

— Rachel Brosnahan