False history gets made all day, any day,the truth of the new is never on the news.
Adrienne Rich
HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
David Ben Gurion
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
George Santayana
What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles.
George Wilhelm Hegel
History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.
Ernst Troeltsch
The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.
R. G. Collingwood
People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.
James Baldwin
One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.
John Andrew Rice
History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.
Edmund Carpenter
History proves nothing because it contains everything.
Emil Cioran