History Quote by Roger Kimball

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness,…

— Walter Bagehot

“Let us remember, for the progressive, historical progress is said to be a process of never-ending cultural and societal adjustments intended to address the…

— Mark R. Levin

“History is not made by great dreams, but by the petty wants of all respectable, moderately thievish and selfish people, that is, of everyone.…

— Karel Čapek

“Personal and world history is an accumulation of todays, and how they were spent.”

— Andrew M. Davis

“History is out of human control and moves forward without consideration of human life or human happiness.”

— FastReads

“history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging.”

— George R.R. Martin

“A nation that fails to recognize and appreciate history is destined for decay.”

— Mark Mortensen

“histories of the world before our own. That was a world of empires, of corruption, of war-and more freedom than I've ever known. But…

— Victoria Aveyard

“History is humankind trying to get a grip.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“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 full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly…

— Carl Sagan

“History was finite and contained within comprehensible limits. It began with the Creation and was scheduled to end in a not indefinitely remote future…

— Barbara W. Tuchman