Quotes about "history"
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
