History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. — Kurt Vonnegut
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses. — Nancy Pickard
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. — Naguib Mahfouz
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history — Howard Zinn
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. — Barbara W. Tuchman
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. — Will Durant
History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought. — Etienne Gilson
What we do about history matters. The often repeated saying that those who forget the. — Gerda Lerner
But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government — Howard Zinn
I would encourage us all, african americans, asians, latinos, whites, native americans to study history. — Maya Angelou