You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
George Eliot

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
George Eliot

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
Martin Heidegger

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
Norman Mailer

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
Norman Mailer

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
Will Durant

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

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Will Durant

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
Charles Bukowski

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
Thurgood Marshall

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.
Dee Hock

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas Carlyle

History, a distillation of rumour.
Thomas Carlyle

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
Tim Vine

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
Jean Piaget

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
Ken Kesey

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

World history is a court of judgment.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel