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

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

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

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

Henry Adams

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

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

History is the distillation of rumour.

Thomas Carlyle

History itself touches only a small part of a nation's life. Most of the activities and sufferings of the people ... have been and will remain without written record.

E. L. Wood word

[History is] not factual at all, but a series of accepted judgments.

Geoffrey Barraclough

Patriotism ruins history.

Goethe

It is not "history" which uses men as a means of achieving -- as if it were an individual person -- its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Karl Marx

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this

Karl Marx

History is the science of what never happens twice.

Paul Valery

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

Thomas Carlyle

In mass societies, myth takes the place of history.

William Bosenbrook

History is a great dust heap.

Thomas Carlyle

Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.

Albert Camus

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