History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
E. L. Doctorow
The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
Friedrich Von Schiller
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
George Bernard Shaw
History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
Voltaire
[A] ny fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.
Oscar Wilde
History is a myth that men agree to believe.
Napoleon
I don't believe the truth will ever be known, and I have a great contempt for history.
Gen. George Meade
History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws.
August Comte
History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.
Henry Adams
History is the science of what never happens twice.
Paul Valery
In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.
James Harvey Robinson
The supreme purpose of history is a better world.
Herbert Hoover