History Quote by William Golding

“History has no meaning.”

— Karl R. Popper

“A novelist is really nothing more than an historian of a people who have no history.”

— Federico Gamboa

“History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“If we have nothing to write about but nothing to write about, then that is what we have to write about.”

— Robert Kroetsch

“Don't let history write itself for you.”

— Christine Stobbe

“History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses…

— Friedrich Engels

“An individual is no match for history.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“History is nothing but the lies we tell about our ancestors”

— Robert Irwin

“History is a record of "effects" the vast majority of which nobody intended to produce.”

— Joseph Schumpeter

“Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness.”

— James C. Malin

“Everything important originated with nothingness.”

— Augusten Burroughs

“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen…

— Félix J. Palma