Course-of-events Quote by Michael Bunker

“while we remain immersed in the study of personal incidents and details, as what such a statesman said or how many men were killed…

— John Fiske

“Because history became his (Keenan's) genuine passion, he tended to see the world in terms of deep historical forces that, in his mind, formed…

— David Halberstam

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

— Aldous Huxley

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to…

— Aldous Huxley

“In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who…

— John Stuart Mill

“A lot of what we know to be history isn’t…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more…

— Louise Penny

“He said history was a sum of situations whose significance was never seen until long afterwards because people had been afraid to act them…

— Paul Scott

“Historians often minimize or discount the impact that any one individual can have on human destiny-and for good reason. Given the broad tides in…

— Kevin Fedarko

“Men delude themselves into thinking that the events in which they participate are of particular significance to history, but they rarely are. One empire…

— Paul S. Kemp

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

— Aldous Huxley

“most historical relationships are ironical in character, or, to put it differently, that the course of history has little to do with the intrinsic…

— Peter L. Berger

“History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”

— Ambrose Bierce