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Quotes about history and historia
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. (Ward Fred)
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. (Ward Fred)
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted. (Ward Fred)
While we read history we make history. (Ward Fred)
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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. (Ward Fred)
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. (Ward Fred)
Our best history is still poetry. (Ward Fred)
Might does not make right, it only makes history. (Ward Fred)
I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen. (Ward Fred)
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. (Ward Fred)
History is more or less bunk. (Ward Fred)
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. (Ward Fred)
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. (Ward Fred)
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. (Ward Fred)
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. (Ward Fred)
To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man. (Ward Fred)
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. (Ward Fred)
He is the purest figure in history. [About George Washington] (Ward Fred)
The history of mankind is his character. (Ward Fred)
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. (Ward Fred)
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. (Ward Fred)
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. (Ward Fred)
You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present. (Ward Fred)
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. (Ward Fred)
A page of history is worth a pound of logic. (Ward Fred)
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