This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

World history is a court of judgment.

Without history we are nothing, so it's worth finding out something about it.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

History is the best guide to the future.

History is a vast early warning system.

Events are not a matter of chance.

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

The great event of history is in the great miracle of Life: when, to a paralyzed world, Jesus Christ said, 'Take up your bed and walk,' and at his voice, that world obeyed. The victory of life over death!

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears to be abandoning the irruption of events in favor of stable structures.

The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

History develops, art stands still.

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

History is not merely a procession of people in fancy dress fighting wars. It is crucially the story of man's evolution from grunting cave dweller to serious thinker, from cruelly retributive law to merciful law, from casual barbarism to care and compassion.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

History, a distillation of rumour.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

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

In 1961, an official U.S. commission oversaw thousands of events to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Civil War. All 50 states joined in, but not surprisingly, the biggest events took place in the 11 southern states that made up the defeated Confederacy.

Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

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

The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

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

Ideas shape the course of history.

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.