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History Quotes - random


Kenneth Clark | History Quotes
Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.
Jacques Barzun
I have always been — I think any student of history almost inevitably is — a cheerful pessimist.
William Hazlitt
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.




Conor Oberst
As they take eye for an eye until no one can see,
we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history.
Lajos Kossuth
History is the revelation of providence.
Robert Aumann | History Quotes
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.
A. J. P. Taylor
Like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
James A. Michener
Texas is … "trotting" journalism, history in a hurry.
Isaac Asimov
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
Christopher Hitchens
David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism.
Nikita Khrushchev | History Quotes
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will dig you in. (We will bury you.)




James A. Garfield
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
Robert Heilbroner
History, as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.
George Saintsbury
The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.
Ruhollah Khomeini
The name of Khomeini will always remain in the new chapter of Iranian history.
John McCain | History Quotes
America is the greatest force for good in the history of the world.
Steve Lyons
Pudge is so old, they didn't have history class when he went to school.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
Marshall McLuhan
Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Those who do not know their history are doomed to keep stepping in it.


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