Century Quote by James Anthony Froude

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

— Herbert Butterfield

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

— Lawrence Durrell

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and…

— Voltaire

History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral…

— C. V. Wedgwood

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

— Andrew Marr

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

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 a tragegy, not a morality tale.

— Anonymous

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are…

— Bill Watterson

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

— Lord Acton

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

— Michael Howard