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History Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


Shimon Peres | History Quotes
Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.
Simon Bolivar
The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote . . . and me!
Benjamin Disraeli
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.




Norman Mailer
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
Elie Wiesel
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
When history moves - really moves - it does so in great convulsive jolts.
A. J. P. Taylor
Like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
Mignon McLaughlin
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
Socrates
We cannot help but see Socrates as the turning-point, the vortex of world history.
Robert Penn Warren
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.




George Saintsbury
Historians may lie, but History cannot.
Thomas Carlyle
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Joseph Stalin
History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.
Kim Stanley Robinson
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
Arthur C. Clarke | History Quotes
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Don DeLillo
I think fiction recues history from its confusions.
Robert Walpole
Anything but history, for history must be false.
Lucien Levy-Bruhl
The primitive mentality is a condition of the human mind, and not a stage in its historical development.
Friedrich von Schiller
World history is the world's court.


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