| The historian has been the hearth at which
the soul of the country has been kept alive.
John Morley
The real history does not get written, because
it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
Alfred North Whitehead
History supplies little beyond a list of
those who have accommodated themselves with the property
of others.
Voltaire
Delusion about history is a serious matter;
it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be
made.
John Terraine
There is nothing more dangerous than history
used as a defense, or history used for preaching; history
used as a tool is no longer history.
Marcel Trudel
Wars usually have the effect of speeding
up the process of history.
Pieter Geyl
A history in which every particular incident
may be true may on the whole be false.
Thomas Babington
Macaulay
History is not the past, but a map of the
past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful
to the modern traveler.
Henry Glassie
History is nothing but a problem of mechanics
applied to psychology.
Hippolyte Taine
Radical historians now the tell the story
of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.
Mason Cooley
History is a pageant and not a philosophy.
Augustine Birrell
History does not unfold: it piles up.
Robert M. Adams
Skepticism is history's bedfellow.
Edgar Saltus
What we take for the history of nature is
only the very incomplete history of an instant.
Denis Diderot
We learn from history that we learn nothing
from history.
George Bernard
Shaw |