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Quotes about history and historia

  • History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; Art has remembered the people, because they created. (Ward Fred)
  • Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. (Ward Fred)
  • All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. (Ward Fred)
  • If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. (Ward Fred)
  • History - its what those bitter old men write. (Ward Fred)
  • Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! (Ward Fred)
  • Revolutions are the locomotives of history. (Ward Fred)
  • We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. (Ward Fred)
  • More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. (Ward Fred)
  • Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. (Ward Fred)
  • To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. (Ward Fred)
  • The main thing is to make history, not to write it. (Ward Fred)
  • From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. (Ward Fred)
  • People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. (Ward Fred)
  • The Thames is liquid history. (Ward Fred)
  • God cannot alter the past, but historians can. (Ward Fred)
  • In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history. (Ward Fred)
  • History is the distillation of rumor. (Ward Fred)
  • Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. (Ward Fred)
  • The whole past is the procession of the present. (Ward Fred)
  • The history of the world is but the biography of great men. (Ward Fred)
  • For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future. (Ward Fred)
  • History is but a confused heap of facts. (Ward Fred)
  • Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. (Ward Fred)
  • For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. (Ward Fred)
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