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Walter Benjamin | History Quotes
The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.
Socrates
We cannot help but see Socrates as the turning-point, the vortex of world history.
James A. Michener
Texas is … "trotting" journalism, history in a hurry.




David Cross
James Lipton: The most pompous arrogant failure in history.
Jefferson Davis
Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
Steve Maraboli | History Quotes
Don't let your history interfere with your destiny.
Henry St John
They (Thucydides and Xenophon) maintained the dignity of history.
Jose Saramago
Ah, who will write the history of what might have been?
Robert Walpole
Anything but history, for history must be false.
Conor Oberst
As they take eye for an eye until no one can see,
we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history.
Auguste Comte | History Quotes
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.




Muhammad Ali Jinnah
One of the most extraordinary men in history.
Mark Twain
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Historia et scribitur ad narrandum non ad probandum.
Ralph Waldo Emerson | History Quotes
Language is the archives of history...Language is fossil poetry.
Larry Niven
8) History never repeats itself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is properly no history; only biography.
Robert Anton Wilson
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
Anonymous
The only lesson history has taught us is that man has not yet learned anything from history.


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