Children Quote by Hermann Hesse

“What is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and fine emotions, is…

— Hermann Hesse

There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us all the…

— Eric McCormack

“Instruction in world history in the so-called high schools is even today in a very sorry condition. Few teachers understand that the study of…

— Adolf Hitler

History is the teacher of life

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Gordon S. Wood

I don't think it's such a bad idea that people learn the same history in school. I think it tends to ground people and…

— Robert Christgau

This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself…

— James Henry Breasted

History is the invention of historians.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Michael Howard

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

— Leszek Kolakowski

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

— Maya Angelou

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey