History And Historians

(359 votes)   Well behaved women rarely make history.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(361 votes)   If a man does his best, what else is there?

General George S. Patton

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(343 votes)   To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(332 votes)   You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.

Hermann Hesse
1877-1962, German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet

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(302 votes)   Those who forget history are bound to repeat it

Winston Churchill

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(280 votes)   "the colonists are by the law of nature free born, as indeed all men are, white or black."

Thomas Paine

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(251 votes)   Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(242 votes)   A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

Robert Heinlein
1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer

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(237 votes)   The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge

Erich Fromm

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(236 votes)   "Only fools who do not heed the lessons of History, are doomed to repeat it!

Fredrick Allen

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(229 votes)   I come to praise Cesar

Mark Anthony

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(220 votes)   Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

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(208 votes)   This ONLY is denied God: The power to undo the past.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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(183 votes)   For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(179 votes)   Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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