History

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now

History is a set of lies agreed upon

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

The history of art is the history of revivals

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.