The main thing is to make history not to write it.

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

History repeats itself and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

If history and science have taught us anything it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

Governments have never learned anything from history or acted on principles deducted from it.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

A strange thing is memory and hope one looks backward and the other forward one is of today the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain memory is a painter it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that and I would hope somebody liked me.

Strangers are exciting their mystery never ends. But there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

American history is longer larger more various more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history I think to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

Read no history: nothing but biography for that is life without theory.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong it creates world history. If it is weak it suffers world history.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Indeed history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches it does not fight battles. It is men real living who do all this.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.