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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.

– James A. GarfieldRate it:

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

– James A. GarfieldRate it:

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

– Henry St. John BolingbrokeRate it:

History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo Would that change what I had for breakfast

– Henry BromelRate it:

History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.

– David HumeRate it:

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

– E. L. DoctorowRate it:

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.

– Donald CreightonRate it:

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

– Stephen SpenderRate it:

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

– Leonard Louis LevinsonRate it:

History is the unfolding of miscalculation.

– Barbara TuchmanRate it:

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

– NapoleonRate it:

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

– CiceroRate it:

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

– Cicero, Pro Publio SestioRate it:

History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield.

– Mario Van PeeblesRate it:

History is your ancestors' outcome of the past; celebrate or compensate.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

– Wystan Hugh AudenRate it:

History knows no resting places and no plateaus.

– Henry KissingerRate it:

History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.

– Philip SkeltonRate it:

History may change, but the facts of the proverbs don't.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.

– Mark TwainRate it:

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

– John W. GardnerRate it:

History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

– George Macaulay TrevelyanRate it:

History repeats itself historians repeat each other.

– Philip GuedallaRate it:

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