"History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history."

Darrow, Clarence on history and historians
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"The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves."

Cicero, Marcus T. on history and historians
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on history and historians   

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"Might does not make right, it only makes history."

Fiebig, Jim on history and historians
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"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."

Flaubert, Gustave on history and historians
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

Forster, Edward M. on history and historians   

"The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies."

Froude, James A. on history and historians   

"To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man."

Gandhi, Mahatma on history and historians
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"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind."

Gibbon, Edward on history and historians
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"For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future."

Cervantes, Miguel De on history and historians   

"The history of the world is but the biography of great men."

Carlyle, Thomas on history and historians
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"The whole past is the procession of the present."

Carlyle, Thomas on history and historians   

"Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles."

Carlyle, Thomas on history and historians   

"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."

Bacon, Francis on history and historians
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"The main thing is to make history, not to write it."

Bismarck, Otto Von on history and historians
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"The Thames is liquid history."

Burns, John on history and historians   

"It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment."

Bacon, Francis on history and historians   

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"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."

Hegel, Friedrich on history and historians
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"While we read history we make history."

Curtis, George William on history and historians   

"In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on greatness   

"God cannot alter the past, but historians can."

Butler, Samuel on history and historians
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"Every time history repeats itself the price goes up."

Unknown, Source on history and historians
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"The history of mankind is his character."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on history and historians
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"History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other."

Guedalla, Philip on history and historians   

"Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it."

Wilde, Oscar on history and historians
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"However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time."

Quennell, Peter on history and historians   

"A land without ruins is a land without memories -- a land without memories is a land without history."

Ryan, Abram Joseph on history and historians
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"There is a history in all men's lives."

Shakespeare, William on history and historians
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"History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal."

Twain, Mark on history and historians
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"Never forget the importance of history. To know nothing of what happened before you took your place on earth, is to remain a child for ever and ever."

Unknown, Source on history and historians
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"History is one of the most remarkable things in our lives. The mere fact it occurred makes it remarkable."

Unknown, Source on history and historians   

"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."

Washington, George on history and historians
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

Wells, H.G. on history and historians   

"Human history in essence is the history of ideas."

Wells, H.G. on history and historians   

"History is a race between education and catastrophe."

Wells, H.G. on history and historians
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"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days."

Plutarch on history and historians   

"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do."

Mussolini, Benito on history and historians   

"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."

Heinlein, Robert on history and historians
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"The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle."

Hoffer, Eric on history and historians
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"A page of history is worth a pound of logic."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on history and historians
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