Chronology Quote by James A. Garfield

History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.

— 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 experience.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— John Henrik Clarke

History is philosophy learned from examples

— Anonymous

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

— Ambrose Bierce

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time…

— John Henrik Clarke

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

— Phillip Guedala

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

— Michael Howard