| History is philosophy teaching by examples. |
| History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. |
| History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. |
| History never looks like history when you are living through it. |
| Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. |
| History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. |
| The world is too dangerous to live in not because of the people who do evil but because of the people who sit and let it happen. |
| We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past. |
| We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics. |
| 'Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written. |
