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Jacques Barzun | History Quotes
I have always been — I think any student of history almost inevitably is — a cheerful pessimist.
David Law Proudfit
Prehistoric Smith, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Robert A. Heinlein
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.




Auguste Comte
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
Joseph Heller
"The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth. Don't you know history?"
H. L. Mencken | History Quotes
Historian — An unsuccessful novelist.
John Maynard Keynes
Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
Laura Penny
Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.
Napoleon Bonaparte
What then is, generally speaking, the [[truth of history? A fable agreed upon.
Romain Gary | History Quotes
There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.




Edward R. Murrow
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Stephanie Zacharek
This sprawling epic is as lively as a natural history museum diorama.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A page of history is worth a volume of logic.
Edmund Cooper
Historically, the developement of machines had amplified man's ability to destroy.
Kenneth Clark | History Quotes
Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Stephen R. Lawhead
You’re changing the course of history. I thought that sort of thing was strictly forbidden.
Jose Saramago
Ah, who will write the history of what might have been?
Thomas Carlyle
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.


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