The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Mark Twain

History is more or less bunk.

Henry Ford

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

William James

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Virginia Woolf

Ideas shape the course of history.

John Maynard Keynes

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

David Hume

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Thomas Jefferson

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

Charles Darwin

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Karl Marx

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

Oscar Wilde

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Mark Twain

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

Annie Besant