Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
History Quotes
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.
History started badly and has been getting steadily worse.
All history is modern history.
History is politics projected into the past.
The historian works with documents. There is no substitute for documents: no documents, no history.
History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women.
History -that little sewer where man loves to wallow.
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music – and of aviation.
