951 private quotes tagged history

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.” — Edmund Burke

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“I came, I saw, I conquered.” — Julius Caesar

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“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” — Karl Marx

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“History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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“History, a distillation of rumour.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.” — Voltaire

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“I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.” — Dalai Lama

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“Human history in essence is the history of ideas.” — H. G. Wells

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“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.” — Voltaire

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“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” — Mark Twain

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“A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'” — William F. Buckley, Jr.

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“History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.” — Ronald Reagan

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“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“History will be kind to me; for I intend to write it.” — Winston Churchill

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“Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.” — Karl Marx

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“If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.” — E. O. Wilson

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“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” — H. G. Wells

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“We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.” — Abdul Kalam

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