People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers. – Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity. – Robert S. Lynd

History supplies little beyond a list of those who have accommodated themselves with the property of others. – Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary