History Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
Historian — An unsuccessful novelist.
The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!
The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.
Written history, like the missionary position, is an act executed from the top looking down.
All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Federer is the best player in history, no other player has ever had such quality.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Myth therefore seems to choose history, rather than be chosen by it.
There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.
Hiding from your history only shackles you to it. Instead, face it and free yourself.
The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.
History is a bath of blood.
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.