Quotes
Quotes about History
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
History is the devil's scripture.
History is a vast early warning system.
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made.
The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in the middle.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything.
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.
Historyâits what those bitter old men write.
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations.
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
History is past politics; and politics present history.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
While we read history we make history.
