History is a set of lies agreed upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. – Henry David Thoreau
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. – Robert Frost
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. – Theodore Roosevelt
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. – George Bernard Shaw
Live out of your imagination, not your history. – Stephen Covey
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. – Albert Camus
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. – Theodore Roosevelt
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. – Margaret Thatcher
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. – Warren Buffett
History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. – Karl Marx
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. – B. R. Ambedkar
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. – Charles Darwin
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. – Voltaire
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. – Stephen Hawking
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. – Voltaire
History should be written as philosophy. – Voltaire
President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history. – Mitt Romney
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. – B. C. Forbes
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. – Robert A. Heinlein
