Chronology Quote by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

— Thucydides

History is Philosophy teaching by examples.

— Anonymous

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

— James A. Garfield

History is philosophy learned from examples

— Anonymous

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

— Thomas Carlyle

History should be written as philosophy.

— Voltaire

Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.

— Phillip Guedala

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

— Dale Jamieson

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

— Paul Valery

I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

History is a vast early warning system.

— Norman Cousins

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard