History Quotes

  • Every Bangladeshi until 1971 was a Pakistani and every Pakistani until 1947 was an Indian.
    ~ Husain Haqqani, on shared histories
  • Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.Upload to Facebook
    Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
    ~ Julio Cortazar
  • History repeats itself because no one listens the first time.Upload to Facebook
    History repeats itself because no one listens the first time.
    ~ Anonymous
  • History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.Upload to Facebook
    History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
    ~ George Santayana
  • We learn from history that we do not learn from history.Upload to Facebook
    We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
    ~ George Wilhelm Hegel
  • A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.
    ~ Richard Reeves
  • History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.
    ~ Charles Angoff
  • A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.
    ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon.
    ~ Voltaire
  • If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
    ~ Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
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