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47 quotes (Page 1 of 2 pages)A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
History and Historians
Robert Heinlein
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A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
History and Historians
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
History and Historians
Oscar Wilde
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Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
History and Historians
Henry Vaughan
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
History and Historians
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.
History and Historians
Source Unknown
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
History and Historians
Abraham Lincoln
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
History and Historians
Napoleon Bonaparte
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He is the purest figure in history. [About George Washington]
History and Historians
William E. Gladstone
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Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.
History and Historians
H. L. Mencken
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Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip.
History and Historians
Ambrose Bierce
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Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
History and Historians
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
History and Historians
Anatole France
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History is a better guide than good intentions.
History and Historians
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
History and Historians
H.G. Wells
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
History and Historians
George Santayana
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History is but a confused heap of facts.
History and Historians
Lord Chesterfield
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History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
History and Historians
Voltaire
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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
History and Historians
Edward Gibbon
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History is more or less bunk.
History and Historians
Henry Ford
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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
History and Historians
Voltaire
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History is the devil's scripture.
History and Historians
Lord Byron
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History is the distillation of rumor.
History and Historians
Thomas Carlyle
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History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
History and Historians
Philip Guedalla
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History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
History and Historians
Clarence Darrow
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun