“Study men, not historians.”
“The Thames is liquid history.”
“History is more or less bunk.”
“History is the devil's scripture.”
“Our best history is still poetry.”
“Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip.”
“History is the distillation of rumor.”
“While we read history we make history.”
“Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.”
“There is a history in all men's lives.”
“History is but a confused heap of facts.”
“The history of mankind is his character.”
“Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.”
“A page of history is worth a pound of logic.”
“God cannot alter the past, but historians can.”
“History is a better guide than good intentions.”
“The whole past is the procession of the present.”
“Might does not make right, it only makes history.”
“Human history in essence is the history of ideas.”
“The main thing is to make history, not to write it.”
“The men who make history have not time to write it.”
“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”
“History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.”
“History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.”
“Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.”
“History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.”
“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”
“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
“He is the purest figure in history. [About George Washington]”