History has the same relation to truth as theology has to religion, that is, one that is not worth talking about.
Robert Heinlein
History is the wind that rips out names, events and dates from the past and drives them ahead of itself into the future, like a herd of empty tin cans.
Alexey Belmasov
History should not humiliate itself to the point of becoming an echo of modern squabbles.
Barant
As a schoolboy I knew all the dates French history but never remembered what happened on that date.
Sasha Guitry
You feel like a real ancient ruin when you read a story about events in a history textbook that you remember as fresh news.
If Beethoven had died in a plane crash, the history of music and aviation would have been completely different.
Tom Stoppard
History is a fiction that everyone agrees on.
Paraphrased Voltaire
History is a policy that can no longer be corrected. Politics is history that can still be corrected.
Sigmund Graff
History is first and foremost a muse.
Paul Valery
History is silent on many stories.
Yuzef Bulatovich
History develops in a tailspin.
Arkady Davidovich
In the history of any nation there are many pages that would be great if they were true.
Denis Diderot
History repeats itself twice, and is rewritten much more frequently.
Anatoly Ras
History will prove me right, especially if I write it myself.
Attributed to Winston Churchill
Every nation has a story for which it has enough imagination.
Maxim Zvonarev
WIMES' LAW: Historical fallacies last longer historical facts.
Mason Lock Weems
Historical truth consists of the silence of the dead.
Etienne Rey
It is impossible to write the history of distant epochs because we do not have enough sources, and it is impossible to write the history of modern times because we have too many sources.
Charles Peguy
The historian must distrust the lofty motives of any act, if any base motive can be pointed out.
Edward Gibbon
If flattery, which the historian uses to succeed, is disgusting to everyone, then everyone willingly listens to slander and slander.
Tacitus
A historian is a person who avoids minor factual errors while building a completely erroneous general picture.
Little happens in right time and a lot of things don't happen at all. A conscientious historian can correct this.
"The Tanniest Thing You Never Said" (2004)
History is exclusively a process of humanization of mankind.
L. Feuerbach
History is just a fable accepted by all.
B. Fontenelle
History is a place where it is easier to get stuck than to enter.
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History is a description, most often false, of actions, most often of little importance, committed by rulers, most often rogues, and soldiers, most often fools.
A. Beers
History is the most the best teacher who has the worst students.
I. Gandhi
I. McLeod
History is a collection of facts that should not have been.
E. Lets
History is a collection of crimes, follies and misfortunes, among which some virtues are noticed, some happy times, just as human settlements are found here and there in the wild desert.
Voltaire
History is an aged modernity.
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History is what is happening, which, crossing time, destroying it, comes into contact with the eternal.
K. Jaspers
History is for the most part a tragedy of the people due to the stupidity of crowned persons, vain politicians, as well as obvious rogues.
V. Zubkov
History is an appeal against modern delusions to the court of posterity.
S. Segur
History is a drama of freedom, where every point is surrounded by chaos.
M. Mamardashvili
History is a study of human error.
F. Guedalla
History is a method of evolution towards pure consciousness - not to being conscious of anything, but to becoming consciousness itself.
Sh Rajnesh
History is the science of liberating oneself from the boundaries of subject and object.
Sh Rajnesh
History is the science of overcoming anarchy, the science of gaining the integrity of consciousness.
Sh Rajnesh
History is sometimes something that never happened, described by someone who has never been there.
E. Poncela
History is practically nothing more than a register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
E. Gibbon
History is a series of fictitious events that actually happened.
C. Montesquieu
History is a collection travel diaries those who traveled through the same country and experienced the same hardships; their successes and failures are equally instructive.
G. Bolingbroke
History is horrible dream from which you want to wake up.
D. Joyce
History is the judgment of descendants over their ancestors.
V. Zubkov
History is a chain failed attempts man to escape from the fetters of his own vicious nature.
T. Wilder
History of throws and jerks
Epoch shakes with giblets,
And what started to live for centuries,
Suddenly overgrown with burdocks.
I. Huberman
History is a collection of crimes, follies and misfortunes, among which some virtues, some happy times, are noticed, just as human settlements are found here and there in the wild desert.
Voltaire
The history of the world is the history of how the weak curse the strong, and the strong curse the weak.
S. Butler
V. Verkhovsky
History not only erects monuments, but also judges scoundrels.
V. Zubkov
History teaches nothing, but only punishes for ignorance of the lessons.
V. Klyuchevsky
Story different peoples shows how deeply rooted in us is the tendency to attribute superhuman properties to those who have talents or simply occupy a prominent position. I have no doubt that the demigods and even the gods of old are only those of our ancestors who were highly revered.
T. Wilder
History teaches only that it has never taught the nations anything.
G. Hegel
History teaches us what mistakes we have to make.
"Peter Quotes"
History teaches that wars create more problems than decide.
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History teaches that wherever weak and ignorant people possessed anything that strong and educated people wanted to have, the former always conceded it of their own free will.
Mark Twain
History, in fact, is little more than a list of crimes, recklessness and misfortunes of mankind.
E. Gibbon
F. Schiller
World history is a conspiracy of diplomats against common sense.
A. Schnitzler
S. Zheromsky
World history consists of biographies of geniuses and great scoundrels.
E. Sevrus
Russian history before Peter the Great is one memorial service, and after Peter the Great - one criminal case.
F. Tyutchev
Difficulties are the only excuse that history does not accept.
S. Greftan
What is history but a lie that everyone agrees on?
Napoleon I
In history more examples fidelity dogs than friends.
A. Pop
In history we will know more facts and understand the meaning of phenomena less.
V. Klyuchevsky
What patriot, no matter what nation he belongs to, would not want to tear out a few pages from the history of our country?
P. Vyazemsky
Many bad students became famous historical figures. As you can see, history is easier to make than to teach it.
L. Feleki
If anything is clear in the long course of history, it is precisely that if the government takes it upon itself to protect the work of the spirit, it protects it in the wrong place and rewards the wrong people.
G. Buckle
Responsibility to history frees one from responsibility to people. This is her convenience.
A. Camus
O. Huxley
V. Brudzinsky
No one has changed the history of mankind as much as historians.
E. Mackenzie
The historian is a big-caliber gossip.
A. Beers
The historian is a failed prose writer.
G. Mencken
Historians falsify the past, ideologists falsify the future.
J. Petan
God cannot change the past, but historians can.
S. Butler
Historical novels were born from truth raped by lies.
P. Buast
Great historical deeds, blinding us with their brilliance and interpreted by politicians as the result of great plans, are most often the fruit of the play of whims and passions.
F. La Rochefoucauld
regularity historical events inversely proportional to their spirituality.
V. Klyuchevsky
Philosophy studies the erroneous views of people, and history their erroneous actions.
Philip Guedalla
History is the science of what no longer exists and will never be.
Paul Valery
History is the science of the future.
Konstantin Kushner
The future of archeology lies in ruins.
Erich von Daniken
Archaeologists are digging out of the ground the history that politicians have buried.
Gabriel Laub
History is like a meat pate: it is better not to look at how it is prepared.
Aldous Huxley
History is a union between the dead, the living and the unborn.
Edmund Burke
History, in fact, does not exist, there are only biographies.
Ralph Emerson
World history is a world court.
Friedrich Schlegel
There is nothing more pointless than judging or treating corpses: they are only ordered to be buried.
Vasily Klyuchevsky
World history is the sum of all that could have been avoided.
Bertrand Russell
Everything is in the hands of the Lord, and only History has slipped out of His control.
Zbigniew Jerzyna
All historical laws have their own statute of limitations.
Maria Ebner Eschenbach
The busiest movement is often found at the dead ends of history.
Arnold Toynbee
World history is the history of victories of people over people.
Stefan Zeromsky
History almost always attributes more combinations to individuals, as well as governments, than they actually had.
Germaine de Stael
Let us be indulgent to great deeds: they are so rarely intentional.
André Berte
The clock of history strikes at random.
Jacek Wejroch
Even the clock of history has its watchmakers.
Bohuslav Wojnar
History is the product of the secretions of the glands of a million historians.
John Steinbeck
God cannot change the past, but historians can. And it must be precisely because they sometimes render this service that God tolerates their existence.
Samuel Butler
History is too serious a matter to be left to historians.
Ian Macleod
The historian is a reversed prophet.
Friedrich Schlegel
A historian is often a journalist turned backwards.
Karl Kraus
The historian's talent is to create a true whole from parts that are only half true.
Ernest Renan
Those who make history often falsify it at the same time.
Wiesław Brudzinski
It is necessary to find meaning in nonsense as well: this is the unpleasant duty of the historian, in clever deeds every philosopher will be able to find meaning.
Vasily Klyuchevsky
The first thing a historian needs is a strong butt.
Ludvik Bazylev, historian
"What will history say?" “History, sir, will lie, as always.”
George Bernard Shaw
The story begins when nothing can be verified anymore.
Vyacheslav Verkhovsky
History repeats itself.
Paraphrased Thucydides
History repeats itself twice - first as a tragedy, then as a farce.
Paraphrased by Karl Marx
History does not repeat itself; and if it is repeated, then this is already sociology.
History has to repeat itself because no one listens to it.
Lawrence Peter
History does not repeat itself - historians simply repeat each other.
Clement F. Rogers
History teaches using forbidden pedagogical techniques.
Wiesław Brudzinski
The lessons of history are that people do not learn anything from the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley, following Hegel
Iliad, Plato, Marathon battle, Moses, Venus Medicius, Strasbourg Cathedral, French revolution, Hegel, steamships, etc. - all these are separate successful thoughts in creative dream God. But the hour will come, and God will wake up, rub his sleepy eyes, smile - and our world will melt without a trace, and, perhaps, it did not exist at all.
Heinrich Heine
(M. Zhvanetsky)
unteachable. (W. Churchill)
to avoid. (B. Russell)
History lesson. (O. Huxley)
story. (G. Heine)
(T. Carlyle)
phenomena. (V. Klyuchevsky)
born. (E. Burke)
(V. Klyuchevsky)
enthusiasm. (I. Goethe)
copies. (A. Tocqueville)
true. (J. Cocteau)
pleasure. (F. Bacon)
future. (M. Saavedra)
desired goal. (F. Engels)
The history of Russia is the struggle of ignorance with injustice.
(M. Zhvanetsky)
Everyone can make history, but only great people
able to write it. (O. Wilde)
The main lesson of history is that mankind
unteachable. (W. Churchill)
Politicians care about a bright future, bright past -
historians, about the bright present - journalists. (J. Petan)
Russian history before Peter the Great is a continuous memorial service, and after
Peter the Great - one criminal case. (F. Tyutchev)
Next to history, politics is nothing more than an anecdote. (S. Dali)
Historical truth consists of the silence of the dead. (E. Ray)
World history is the sum of all that could be
to avoid. (B. Russell)
The fact that people do not learn from the mistakes of history is the most important
History lesson. (O. Huxley)
Each person is a world that is born with him and with him
dies; under every tombstone lies the world
story. (G. Heine)
In the history of any nation there are many pages that
would be great if they were true. (D. Diderot)
The history of the world is the biography of great people.
(T. Carlyle)
History repeats itself twice - first as a tragedy,
then as a farce. (K. Marx)
In history, we learn more facts and understand less meaning.
phenomena. (V. Klyuchevsky)
History is a union between the dead, the living and not yet
born. (E. Burke)
History teaches nothing, but only punishes for ignorance of the lessons.
(V. Klyuchevsky)
History teaches that wherever weak and ignorant people
possessed anything that strong and strong people wanted to have
educated, the former always conceded it of their own free will. (M. Twain)
The best that history gives us is the
enthusiasm. (I. Goethe)
A page of history is worth a volume of logic. (O. Holmes)
World history is a world court. (I. Schiller)
Human history, devoid of the idea of progress, is
only a meaningless change of events, an eternal ebb and flow
random phenomena that do not fit into the framework of the general
worldview. (L. Mechnikov)
History is an art gallery, where there are few originals and many
copies. (A. Tocqueville)
History is truth, which eventually becomes
lies. A myth is a lie that eventually becomes
true. (J. Cocteau)
History is a series of fictitious events about
actually accomplished. (Ch. Montesquieu)
The historian's talent is to create a true whole
of parts that are only half right. (J. Renan)
One must also find meaning in nonsense: this is an unpleasant
the duty of a historian, in smart business he will be able to find the meaning
every philosopher. (V. Klyuchevsky)
The less true the story is, the more it delivers
pleasure. (F. Bacon)
Our entire history is fiction, with which everyone agrees. (Voltaire)
History is the treasury of our deeds, the witness of the past,
an example and lesson for the present, a warning for
future. (M. Saavedra)
In history... nothing is done without conscious intention, without
desired goal. (F. Engels)
What is a man can be known not by reflection on
by itself and not even through psychological
experiments, but only from history. (W. Dilthey)
Morality is the soul of history. (J. Joubert)
The history of Russia is the struggle of ignorance with injustice.
(M. Zhvanetsky)
Everyone can make history, but only great people
able to write it. (O. Wilde)
The main lesson of history is that mankind
unteachable. (W. Churchill)
Politicians care about a bright future, bright past -
historians, about the bright present - journalists. (J. Petan)
Russian history before Peter the Great is a continuous memorial service, and after
Peter the Great - one criminal case. (F. Tyutchev)
Next to history, politics is nothing more than an anecdote. (S. Dali)
Historical truth consists of the silence of the dead. (E. Ray)
World history is the sum of all that could be
to avoid. (B. Russell)
The fact that people do not learn from the mistakes of history is the most important
History lesson. (O. Huxley)
Each person is a world that is born with him and with him
dies; under every tombstone lies the world
story. (G. Heine)
In the history of any nation there are many pages that
would be great if they were true. (D. Diderot)
The history of the world is the biography of great people.
(T. Carlyle)
History repeats itself twice - first as a tragedy,
then as a farce. (K. Marx)
In history, we learn more facts and understand less meaning.
phenomena. (V. Klyuchevsky)
History is a union between the dead, the living and not yet
born. (E. Burke)
History teaches nothing, but only punishes for ignorance of the lessons.
(V. Klyuchevsky)
History teaches that wherever weak and ignorant people
possessed anything that strong and strong people wanted to have
educated, the former always conceded it of their own free will. (M. Twain)
The best that history gives us is the
enthusiasm. (I. Goethe)
A page of history is worth a volume of logic. (O. Holmes)
World history is a world court. (I. Schiller)
Human history, devoid of the idea of progress, is
only a meaningless change of events, an eternal ebb and flow
random phenomena that do not fit into the framework of the general
worldview. (L. Mechnikov)
History is an art gallery, where there are few originals and many
copies. (A. Tocqueville)
History is truth, which eventually becomes
lies. A myth is a lie that eventually becomes
true. (J. Cocteau)
History is a series of fictitious events about
actually accomplished. (Ch. Montesquieu)
The historian's talent is to create a true whole
of parts that are only half right. (J. Renan)
One must also find meaning in nonsense: this is an unpleasant
the duty of a historian, in smart business he will be able to find the meaning
every philosopher. (V. Klyuchevsky)
The less true the story is, the more it delivers
pleasure. (F. Bacon)
Our entire history is fiction, with which everyone agrees. (Voltaire)
History is the treasury of our deeds, the witness of the past,
an example and lesson for the present, a warning for
future. (M. Saavedra)
In history... nothing is done without conscious intention, without
desired goal. (F. Engels)
What is a man can be known not by reflection on
by itself and not even through psychological
experiments, but only from history. (W. Dilthey)
Morality is the soul of history. (J. Joubert)
Many of us, especially schoolchildren and their parents, tirelessly wonder why we need to know history. What is the significance and relevance of studying the events of many years ago? However, there are many different reasons that indicate the need to study this subject, which is a combination of many other disciplines. Many arguments have already been made about the importance of history, but they still hold true today.
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A healthy social atmosphere in the country, a full-fledged society and peace is the goal to which all people in general and each separate state in particular. It is impossible to evaluate everything with money and pay for everything. Therefore, the state rests not on businessmen, but on patrons, altruists and patriots. The whole world is based on them. History remembers them. Those who loved their country, who gave their lives for the happiness of others. These are fearless warriors, and selfless doctors, and talented scientists, and simply disinterested patriots of their people.
Why is history needed? Because it popularly tells each next generation about what it owes to its ancestors. We will find out what ideals our great-grandfathers lived by, what feats they performed. We understand how their lives have affected our present. Raising respect for the past with its reforms, struggles, victories and failures is the task of history.
Why study history?
Today is inseparable from yesterday. All people and peoples live in history: we speak languages that have come down to us from the distant past, we live in societies with complex cultures inherited from ancient times, we use technologies developed by our ancestors… Thus, studying the relationship between past and present is undeniable basis for a good understanding of contemporary human being. This explains why we need history, why and how important it is in our lives.
Acquaintance with the human past is the path to self-knowledge. History helps to understand the origins of modern social and political problems. It is the most important source of study characteristic behavior people in one way or another social conditions. History makes us realize that people in the past were not just "good" or "bad", but motivated in difficult and conflicting relationship like now.
Each person's view of the world is shaped by individual experience, as well as the experience of the society in which he lives. If we do not know modern and historical experience different cultures, then we cannot even hope to understand how people, societies or nations make decisions in the modern world.
The very essence
Historical knowledge is nothing more and nothing less than a carefully and critically constructed collective memory. It is memory that makes us human, and collective memory, that is, history, makes us society. Why know history? Yes, without an individual, he will immediately lose his identity, will not know how to act when meeting other people. The same thing happens with collective memory, although its loss will not be noticeable so instantly.
However, memory cannot be frozen in time. Collective memory is gradually acquiring new meaning. Historians are constantly working to rethink the past, asking new questions, searching for new ones, and analyzing old documents in order to gain new knowledge and experience in order to better understand the past and what is happening. History is constantly changing and expanding, as is our memory, helping us acquire new knowledge and skills to improve our lives….
History Quotes
The history of the world is the biography of great people. Thomas Carlyle
History is the witness of time, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the herald of antiquity. Mark Tullius Cicero
Looking at history as if in a mirror, I try to change for the better own life. Plutarch
A compelling story is rarely completely true. Samuel Johnson
God cannot change the past, but historians can. And it must be precisely because they sometimes render this service that God tolerates their existence. Samuel Butler
A sign of the historian's malevolent character is the desire of two or more versions of a story to always give preference to the one that depicts historical figure in a darker light. Plutarch
From history we draw experience; on the basis of experience, the most vital part of our practical mind is formed. Johann Gottfried Herder
History should not overstep the limits of truth, and for honest deeds, one truth is enough. Gaius Pliny Caecilius (younger)
History teaches that wherever weak and ignorant people had something that strong and educated people wanted to have, the former always conceded it of their own free will. Mark Twain
The greatest misunderstanding is to go into morality when it comes to historical facts. Denis Diderot
The historian's talent is to create a true whole from parts that are only half true. Joseph Ernest Renan
We are always ready to tell the same story twice - but not to hear it twice. William Gaslitt
The first law of history is to be afraid of any lie, and then not to be afraid of any truth. Mark Tullius Cicero
History is the treasury of our deeds, a witness to the past, an example and lesson for the present, a warning for the future. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Possibly more exact description what never happened is the historian's inalienable privilege and specialty. Oscar Wilde
The wheel of history is turned by fools and swindlers. They rule the world. They are the world. George Savile Halifax
History is a series of fictitious events about real events. Charles Louis Montesquieu
What is the history of mankind if not a long story about unfulfilled plans and unfulfilled hopes? Samuel Johnson
In the history of any nation there are many pages that would be great if they were true. Denis Diderot
The history of nations oppressed by despots is but a collection of anecdotes. Nicolas-Sebastian Chamfort
The ancient historians present us with delightful fiction in the form of facts; the modern novelist presents us with boring facts under the guise of fiction. Oscar Wilde
I don't talk about the importance folk songs. This is folk history, lively, bright, full of colors, truth, exposing the whole life of the people. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
The history of Russia is the struggle of ignorance with injustice. (M. Zhvanetsky)
Everyone can make history, but only great people can write it. (O. Wilde)
The main lesson of history is that humanity is unteachable. (W. Churchill)
Politicians care about a bright future, historians about a bright past, and journalists about a bright present. (J. Petan)
Russian history before Peter the Great is a continuous memorial service, and after Peter the Great - one criminal case. (F. Tyutchev)
Next to history, politics is nothing more than an anecdote. (S. Dali)
Historical truth consists of the silence of the dead. (E. Ray)
World history is the sum of all that could have been avoided. (B. Russell)
The fact that people do not learn from the mistakes of history is the most main lesson stories. (O. Huxley)
Each person is a world that is born with him and dies with him; under every tombstone lies The World History. (G. Heine)
In the history of any nation there are many pages that would be great if they were true. (D. Diderot)
The history of the world is the biography of great people. (T. Carlyle)
History repeats itself twice, first as a tragedy, then as a farce. (K. Marx)
In history, we learn more facts and understand less the meaning of phenomena. (V. Klyuchevsky)
History is a union between the dead, the living and the unborn. (E. Burke)
History teaches nothing, but only punishes for ignorance of the lessons. (V. Klyuchevsky)
Revolutions are the locomotives of history. (K. Marx)
History teaches that wherever weak and ignorant people possessed anything that strong and educated people wanted to have, the former always conceded it of their own free will. (M. Twain)
The best that history gives us is the enthusiasm it arouses. (I. Goethe)
A page of history is worth a volume of logic. (O. Holmes)
World history is a world court. (I. Schiller)
Human history, devoid of the idea of progress, represents only a meaningless change of events, an eternal ebb and flow of random phenomena that do not fit into the framework common outlook. (L. Mechnikov)
History is an art gallery, where there are few originals and many copies. (A. Tocqueville)
History repeats itself because there are not enough historians with imagination. (S. Lets)
History is the truth, which eventually becomes a lie. A myth is a lie that eventually becomes the truth. (J. Cocteau)
History is a series of fictitious events about real events. (Ch. Montesquieu)
The historian's talent is to create a true whole from parts that are only half true. (J. Renan)
It is necessary to find meaning in nonsense as well: this is the unpleasant duty of the historian, in clever deeds every philosopher will be able to find meaning. (V. Klyuchevsky)
