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 Philosophy teaching by examples.
Thucydides
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
Kurt Vonnegut
The most henious and the must cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
Mohandas K Gandhi
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
Robert Heinlein
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
The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know
Harry S Truman
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Winston Churchill
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
Mark Yost
I don't believe the truth will ever be known, and I have a great contempt for history.
Gen. George Meade