Chronicles Quote by James G. Frazer

“History would not be what it is, the record of man’s crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.”

— Ladislas Farago

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and…

— Thomas Carlyle

History makes people wise.

— Francis Bacon Sr

The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him…

— Michael Howard

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had…

— David Hume

There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living…

— David Grann

“History cannot be logically constructed any more than a scientific event, if only because it involves the process of vague and indefinable concepts which…

— Ludwik Fleck

The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game,…

— Stefan Zweig

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

— Eskinder Nega

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

— Isaac Asimov

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

— Hannah Arendt