“History n: an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.”
Others on History
Karl Marx
5 quotes“History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all...”
Thomas Carlyle
4 quotes“The three great elements of modern civilization Gunpowder Printing and the Protestant Religion.”
Otto von Bismarck
4 quotes“History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.”
Salman Rushdie
4 quotes“A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.”
Barbara Tuchman
3 quotes“Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
3 quotes“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”
Edmund Burke
3 quotes“History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.”
Dan Brown
3 quotes“The key to our scientific future,....is hidden in our past”
Gertrude Stein
2 quotes“This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.”
José Ortega y Gasset
2 quotes“The past will not tell us what we ought to do but... what we ought to avoid.”
Heinrich Heine
2 quotes“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people”
Chuck Palahniuk
2 quotes“You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remembe...”