Bunk Quote by Henry Ford

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

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history…

— Henry Ford

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 torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We…

— Claude Bowers

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

— Otto von Bismarck

History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier.…

— Stephen Fry

The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.

— David Grann

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

— Henry Clausen

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

— Peter Greenaway

History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices…

— James Howard Kunstler

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what…

— Learned Hand

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

— Wallace Stegner