"History is the essence of innumerable biographies." ~ Thomas Carlyle
History never looks like history when you are living through it. ~ John W. Gardner
History is a vast early warning system. ~ Norman Cousins
History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself. ~ Georffrey C. Ward
History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past. ~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they’ve managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible destroy their family and work ethic. ~ Walter Williams
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future. ~ Stephen Spender
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not. ~ Theodore Harold White
World history is a court of judgment. ~ Georg Hegel
History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. ~ James Baldwin
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom. ~ Leonard Louis Levinson
A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story. ~ Jim Bishop
A knowledge of history makes you see things as they are. Men used to wear wigs, men wore makeup, men had beaded dress. ~ Gianni Versace
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. ~ Sioux Proverb
