Those who don’t study the past will repeat its errors; those who do study it will find other ways to err.
History Quotes
In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history […]
The humanities will always be heavily influenced by the work of the dead white men of Europe, for they have been history’s troublemakers, the fomenters of revolutions and inventions, the impetus of change, the implacable enemies of the silence in which humanity perishes. No other great body of work invites criticism or denies loneliness to […]
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
In London in the southern section of the Buckingham Palace Road, walking southward along the pavement skirting the west wall of Victoria Station, the writer, once, one afternoon not long after the end of the First World War – he had failed to record the exact date – had found himself in communion, not just […]
Men make history. History does not make the man.
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
And how fascinating history is – the long, variegated pageant of man’s still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.
History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.
Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed, – render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!
