History(Related Subjects: Time, The Past, Memory)

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Pro Publio Sestio History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905 History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today. Henry Ford (1863 - 1947), Interview in Chicago Tribune, May 25th, 1916 For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum. J. W. Schopf History never looks like history when you are living through it. John W. Gardner (1912 - ), quoted by Bill Moyers History is the short trudge from Adam to atom. Leonard Louis Levinson History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821) Some people make headlines while others make history. Philip Elmer-DeWitt, in Time Magazine History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. Voltaire (1694 - 1778)