"Peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deductible from it." ~ Georg Hegel
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste. ~ Adlai Stevenson
All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Anyone can look for history in a museum. Creative explorers look for history in hardware stores. ~ Robert Wieder
History is an accumulation of error. ~ Norman Cousins
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. ~ George Santayana
History is full of surprises. ~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
History is but the register of human crimes and misfortunes. ~ Voltaire
There is no rest for the weird, and history proves it. ~ Timothy White
Going from---toward; it is the history of every one of us. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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 is the unfolding of miscalculation. ~ Barbara Tuchman
Men make history and not the other way around. ~ Harry Truman
When you have big historic changes, there are going to be ups and downs... There are going to be peaks and valleys. Some things are going to go right. Some things are going to go wrong. But as long as the strategic direction is going in the right way, that's really what you have to judge. ~ Condoleezza Rice, Charlotte Observer, 9/14/04
History … is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ~ Edward Gibbon
History is philosophy teaching by example. ~ Henry St. John, Viscount Bolinbroke
History must stay open, it is all humanity. ~ William Carlos Williams
All the experience of history confirms that sharing the same beliefs has been a preliminary to quarreling about their interpretation. ~ Theodore Zeldin
