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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Barbara W. Tuchman

The greatest man in history was the poorest

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

Aldous Huxley

It appears to me that in Ethics, as in all other philosophical studies, the difficulties and disagreements, of which history is full, are mainly due to a very simple cause: namely to the attempt to answer questions, without first discovering precisel

George Moore

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times

Gustave Flaubert

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Benjamin Disraeli

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David C. McCullough

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

Voltaire

History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write good history.

Louis Gottschalk

History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.

Robert Penn Warren

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

Voltaire

It should be known that history is a discipline that has a great number of approaches.

Ibn Khalduin of Tunis

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

Henry Ford

History must be written of, by and for the survivors.

Anonymous

History must be written of, by and for the survivors.

Unknown

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.

Pieter Geyl

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

Karl Popper

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

Goethe

History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.

Alfred Kazin

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

Norman O. Brown

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

A. L. Rowse

I don't believe the truth will ever be known, and I have a great contempt for history.

Gen. George Meade

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

Henry Adams

There is a history in all men's lives.

William Shakespeare

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible

Mark Twain

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Robert Francis Kennedy

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

Rudyard Kipling

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

Jane Haddam

The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that ... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.

Louise Otto

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