History Quotes

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

The man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian’s writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

With a good perspective of history, we can have a better understanding of the past and present, and thus a clear vision of the future.

Victory without any struggle is just a victory. But a victory that overcomes a lot of trouble, becomes history.