The lesson we learn from history is, This is what people are like.
History Quotes
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
He who does not know how to give himself an account of three thousand years may remain in the dark, inexperienced, and live from day to day.
I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.
Just as philosophy is the study of other people’s misconceptions, so history is the study of other people’s mistakes.
All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.
In prehistoric times women resembled men, and men resembled women.
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.
