History Quote by Helen Keller

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

— Pierre Bayle

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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 the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind.

— Johann Gustav Droysen

“History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize…

— Aldous Huxley

It is said that the history of peoples who have a history is the history of class struggle. It might be said with at…

— Pierre Clastres

History is the self-consciousness of humanity.

— Johann Gustav Droysen

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

— Henry Clausen

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs…

— Carl Sagan

“History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past”

— Hilary Mantel

“History is a record of human nature in action.”

— James Carlos Blake

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

— Edward Gibbon