Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Francis Bacon

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
Eric Hoffer

History takes time. History makes memory.
Gertrude Stein

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Victor Hugo

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
Gertrude Stein

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
Susan Sontag

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
Susan Sontag

Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
John Maynard Keynes

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
Jimmy Carter

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

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas Sowell

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
William J. Clinton

History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. Wells

Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
Rahm Emanuel

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.
Rahm Emanuel