 | "History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity."
- Cicero
, Pro Publio Sestio. |
| "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."
- George Bernard Shaw
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| "History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today."
- Henry Ford
, Interview in Chicago Tribune, May 25th, 1916. |
| "For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum."
- J. W. Schopf
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| "History never looks like history when you are living through it."
- John W. Gardner
, quoted by Bill Moyers. |
| "History is the short trudge from Adam to atom."
- Leonard Louis Levinson
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| "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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| "Some people make headlines while others make history."
- Philip Elmer-DeWitt
, in Time Magazine. |
| "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
- Sir Winston Churchill
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| "Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes."
- Voltaire
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