History quotes

- To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.
Roy P. Basler

- The history of states and nations has provided some income for historiographers and book dealers, but I know no other purpose it may have served.
Borne

- History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.
J. H. Plumb

- A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
George Santayana

- Any time gone by was better.
Jorge Manrique

- Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.
Cicero

- History is ultimately more important than its singers.
Michael Harrington

- History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.
Norman O. Brown

- Nothing capable of being memorized is history.
R. G. Collingwood

- The past does not influence me; I influence it.
Willem De Kooning

- To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.
Lord Bolingbroke

- “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it”
Winston Churchill quotes

- “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”
Robert Francis Kennedy quotes