Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about History. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 History Quotes and Sayings from 92 influential authors, including Brent E. Turvey,Marty Rubin,Herbert Butterfield,Voltaire,Gilbert K. Chesterton, for you to enjoy and share.

History collects; history records; and history remembers. And it patiently waits for unsatisfied minds to discover it. By Brent E. Turvey History Collects Records Remembers Patiently

History is the study of the abuse of power. By Marty Rubin History Power Study Abuse

Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them in our surveys of general history, but their discovery is the glory of historical research. History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our present. By Herbert Butterfield Research History Strange Bridges Make

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times. By Voltaire Follies History Crimes Virtues Times

History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced By Gilbert K. Chesterton History Slide Retraced Toboggan Road

History is still happening By Godfried Bomans History Happening

History is what people want to remember. By Jane Stevenson History Remember People

Be a history maker By Sunday Adelaja Maker History

I am a fan of history. By Tom T. Hall History Fan

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. By Napoleon Bonaparte History Version Past Events People

History is hallmark of humanity. By Lailah Gifty Akita History Humanity Hallmark

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression. By Helen Keller History Oppression Record Incessant Struggle

History is the siren song of the soul. By Terence Mckenna History Soul Siren Song

Our history, in the cosmos and on planet Earth, was shaped by countless events, some obviously epic, some seemingly trivial, yet all vital in getting us to this point, here and now, the people we are today. By Neil Degrasse Tyson Earth History Events Epic Trivial

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living By Lawrence Durrell History Living Endless Repetition Wrong

History is clarified experience. By James Russell Lowell History Experience Clarified

History is at once freedom and necessity. By Antonio Gramsci History Necessity Freedom

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles. By Terry Pratchett History Contrary Theories Battles Popular

History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening. By James Joyce History Awakening Nightmare

History has been conceivedand with high justification in the recordsas the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies. By Mary Ritter Beard Human History Places Societies Conceivedand

History is an amazing presenceit is the place where vanished time gathers. While we are in the flow of time, it is difficult to glean its significance, and it is only in looking back that we can recognize the hidden dimensions at work within a particular era or epoch. By John O'donohue History Gathers Time Amazing Presenceit

History is orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured. By Kedar Joshi History Orphan Speak Hear Give

History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible. By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich History Past Audible Conversation Shouting

Leave history to historians. By Ali Babacan Leave Historians History

History is the science of things which are not repeated. By Paul Valery History Repeated Science Things

How would you document the history of today? By Lailah Gifty Akita Today Document History

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable. By Thomas B. Macaulay History Immutable Distinguishes Accidental Transitory

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness. By Vincent Massey History Sentiments Food Good Noble

History is the hallmark of humanity. By Lailah Gifty Akita History Humanity Hallmark

History is history. By Troy Vincent History

To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history. By Auguste Comte Science History Understand

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex. By Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges History Science Subject Human Society

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration. By Norman O. Brown History Stage Commemoration Enactment Ritual

History is the heart of humanity. By Lailah Gifty Akita History Humanity Heart

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances. By Donald Creighton History Circumstances Record Encounter Character

History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive. By Edmund Morgan History Predecessors Repulsive Indirectly Directly

History is a record of exploded ideas. By John Fisher, 1St Baron Fisher History Ideas Record Exploded

History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance. By Donald Creighton History Circumstance Record Encounters Character

Histories are instruments of oppression. By Catherynne M Valente Histories Oppression Instruments

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. By Marc Bloch History Essentials Change Science Alike

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without. By Howard Nemerov History Marvelous Illusions Deal Dealing

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past. By Peter Greenaway History Historians Thing Past

When history calls, history calls, By Olympia Snowe Calls History

History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of hindsight like an arrogant detective who seems to know the end of the mystery from the outset. By David Grann History Judge Merciless Secrets Wielding

Define history. Was it the sequence of factual past events, the stories about the factual sequence of past events, or the interpretation of the stories about past events? By Josh Lanyon Events Past Define History Stories

History made when mindset changed. By Toba Beta History Changed Made Mindset

History is Storytelling. By Yaa Gyasi Storytelling History

History is usually a random, messy affair', By Richard Dawkins History Random Messy Affair

History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed. By Amy Waldman Human Behavior History Fiction Raw

History is more interesting than most people think. By Tansy Rayner Roberts History Interesting People

Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing. By George W. Bush History Arc Shore Turning Wide

History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends. By Leo Tolstoy History Life Unconscious Universal Humanity

History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and nature in her magnificence,Jerusalem bleeding under the Roman, or Lisbon vanishing in flame and earthquake. History must be splendid. Bacon called it the pomp of business. Its march is in high places, and along the pinnacles and points of great affairs. By Robert Aris Willmott Painter Canvas Figure History World

When searching out a history, sifting through a thousand facts and ten thousand lives, one often uncovers pieces that do not fit. By Julie Berry History Sifting Lives Fit Thousand

In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history. By Tariq Ali West Union Soviet History Collapse

Our histories plan our futures. By Robyn Carr Futures Histories Plan

History is the memory of States. By Henry Kissinger States History Memory

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. By Julian Barnes History Documentation Certainty Produced Point

History is the collective and ancestral shit of the human race, a great big and ever-growin pile of crap. Right now we're standin at the top of it, but pretty soon we'll be buried under the doodoo of generations yet to come. By Stephen King History Race Crap Collective Ancestral

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. By Walter Bagehot Rembrandt Greatest Unseen History Art

History is not a map to be read, nor a path to be followed. It is a landscape of contours and textures, of colours and sounds. By Tom Lloyd History Read Map Path Textures

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history. By Amilcar Cabral Culture History Simultaneously Fruit People

History is the self-consciousness of humanity. By Johann Gustav Droysen History Humanity Selfconsciousness

People who are not historians sometimes think of history as the facts about the past. Historians are supposed to know otherwise. The facts are there, to be sure, but they are infinite in number and speak, if at all, in conflicting, often unintelligible, voices. It is the task of the historian to reach back into this incoherent babel of facts, choose the ones that are important, and figure out what it is they say. By Paul A. Cohen Facts People Past History Historians

History is as Old as My Grandfather By Adolf Hitler Grandfather History

If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints. By Allan Nevins Uninspiring History Photograph Past Flat

Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere, and what had happened in the past. To view a period in isolation is to miss whatever message it has to offer. By Louis L'amour Happening Comparison Past Study History

History is about ordinary people living their ordinary lives, just as we do today, while all around the world is changing. It makes heroes out of some people and victims out of others. By Vicky Adin History Lives Today Changing Ordinary

History's a bitch when you're in the middle of it. By Jay Asher History Bitch Middle

History Belong to those who pray.... By Jake Hamilton Belong History Pray

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think. By Simon Schama Beginning History Fairytales Content Simply

History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar. By Mal Peet History Road Heavy Traffic Prevents

History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory By George Santayana History Memory Assisted Recorded

What is history, indeed, but a record of change? By Jawaharlal Nehru History Change Record

History is the angle at which realities meet. By Don Delillo History Meet Angle Realities

History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward By Hendrik Willem Van Loon Forward History Experience Ages Mighty

History is the seed bed of the future. By Leo Booth History Future Seed Bed

History is the science of what never happens twice. By Paul Valery History Science

Human nature in time is engraved in history. By Lailah Gifty Akita Human History Nature Time Engraved

History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma By Aldous Huxley Ignorance History Dogma Record Human

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts. By Peter Kuznick History Interpretation Facts Matter Start

History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth. By Michelle Sagara West History Guide Friend Stranger Legend

History's just one darn thing after another. By Henry Ford History Darn Thing

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living. By John Smith History Time Living Memory Life

History teaches us every day; our understanding is the matter! By Ernest Agyemang Yeboah History Day Matter Teaches Understanding

History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots. By Michel-Rolph Trouillot Power History Superfluous Fruit Transparent

History is simply what's behind us. By Brad Meltzer History Simply

History is a bath of blood. By William James History Blood Bath

Historyis nothing other than a collection of the lives of people, some of them great, some of them ordinarynothing other than a collection of what people have done in challenging circumstances and how they have risen to those circumstances. By Artur Davis Collection People Circumstances Historyis Great

History is not necessarily what happened but what is recorded. By Debbie Terranova History Recorded Necessarily Happened

HISTORY IS the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible. By Leo Tolstoy History Life Humanity Nations Nation

History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world. By Heraclitus Child History Sea World Building

History balances the frustration of 'how far we have to go' with the satisfaction of 'how far we have come.' It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time. By Lewis F. Powell Jr. History Balances Frustration Satisfaction Generation

History is the daughter of time. By Lucien Febvre History Time Daughter

The special and salutary benefit of the study of history is to behold evidence of every sort of behavior set forth as on a splendid memorial; from it you may select for yourself and for your country what to emulate, from it what to avoid, whether basely begun or basely concluded. By Livy Basely Memorial Emulate Avoid Concluded

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it - as with these - life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation. By Henry Steele Commager Assert Music Poetry Flowers Religion

History is driven, over the long haul, by culture - by what men and women honor, cherish, and worship; by what societies deem to be true and good, and by the expressions they give to those convictions in language, literature, and the arts; by what individuals and societies are willing to stake their lives on. By George Weigel Societies Cherish Literature History Driven

The most important history is the history we make today. By Henry Ford Today History Important Make

History is the story of events, with praise or blame. By Cotton Mather History Events Blame Story Praise

History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory. By Ralph Davis History Memory Attempts Provide Society