History/historians

Famous quotes containing the words history and/or historians:

“History ... is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
But what experience and history teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

“History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.”
—Philip Guedalla (1889–1944)