Popular Quotes and Sayings about History |
| History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. ~Sir Winston Churchill History never looks like history when you are living through it. ~John W. Gardner Some people make headlines while others make history. ~Philip Elmer-DeWitt Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. ~Colin Powell For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum. ~J. W. Schopf Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. ~E. F. Schumacher Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. ~George Bernard Shaw History is the short trudge from Adam to atom. ~Leonard Louis Levinson History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. ~Napoleon Bonaparte History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ~Abba Eban |