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I have always been — I think any student of history almost inevitably is — a cheerful pessimist.
Prehistoric Smith, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
"The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth. Don't you know history?"
Historian — An unsuccessful novelist.
Ideas shape the course of history.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.
What then is, generally speaking, the [[truth of history? A fable agreed upon.
There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
This sprawling epic is as lively as a natural history museum diorama.
A page of history is worth a volume of logic.
Historically, the developement of machines had amplified man's ability to destroy.
Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
You’re changing the course of history. I thought that sort of thing was strictly forbidden.
Ah, who will write the history of what might have been?
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.