History Quote by Henry Ford

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

— Ambrose Bierce

Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

— Lewis H. Lapham

More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.

— Rene Girard

“World-history is the history of the great Cultures, and peoples are but the symbolic forms and vessels in which the men of these Cultures…

— Oswald Spengler

History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern…

— Edward Hallett Carr

“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

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

— Oliver Stone

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

— Helen Keller

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

— Thomas Carlyle

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 the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

— Gordon S. Wood

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

— David McCullough