Building Quote by Heraclitus

“History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.”

— Heraclitus

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

— Karl Marx

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 formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

— Anselm Kiefer

History is the daughter of time.

— Lucien Febvre

History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.

— John Henrik Clarke

“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

History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to…

— Carl Sandburg

“It is not history. But I am beginning to wonder strongly what is the nature of history. Is it only memory in decent sentences,…

— Sebastian Barry

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

— David McCullough

History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It…

— Karl Marx

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