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, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
Mark Yost
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
The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know
Harry S Truman
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
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man
Ralph Waldo Emerson
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
Kurt Vonnegut
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
Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.
David Hume
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