History Quote by Paul S. Kemp

“Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.”

— Janet Wallach

“The Empire is a force unprecedented in any age, poised to end history itself. No one should confront it alone.”

— Alexander Freed

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

— Ambrose Bierce

“The history of the world is but a biography of great men.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“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

“History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." --”

— Abba Eban

“World-history is the history of the great Cultures, and peoples are but the symbolic forms and vessels in which the men of these Cultures…

— Oswald Spengler

“History is chronicled by conquerors.”

— J. Tullos Hennig

“If somebody is telling you there is one history, one people & one version of events, you should consider what side of history that…

— Sara Ellie MacKenzie

“...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be…

— Brad Meltzer

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control…

— Edward W. Said

“We shall not understand the history of men and of other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied,…

— Benedetto Croce