History Quote by Robert Schell

“The rest of history for three and twenty centuries is threaded with the spreading out and development and interaction and the clearer and more…

— H.G. Wells

“History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and…

— Edmund Burke

“history does not tolerate a vacuum. If incidences of famine, plague and war are decreasing, something is bound to take their place on the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue…

— Maximilien Robespierre

“Most sociopolitical hierarchies lack a logical or biological basis – they are nothing but the perpetuation of chance events supported by myths. That is…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Life turns on little things. The momentous events in history can leave us untouched, while small events may shape our destinies.”

— Jennifer Worth

“Because history has the functions it has—supplying practical lessons and moral examples, shaping a culture’s identity and even influencing one’s view of destiny—it is…

— Heath White

“Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of custom and trade and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ambrose Bierce

“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

“History, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of the rise and fall of…

— Patricia Hampl

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from…

— Jacob Burckhardt