History is neither a science nor an art, but
something different from either one. It is a discipline, a body
of knowledge, and a human activity unique and independent.
- W. T. K. Nugent
Man has no nature, but only history.
- Ortega Y. Gassett
The only clue to what man can do is what has
been done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us
what has been done and thus what man is.
- R. G. Collingwood
A nation which does not know what it was yesterday,
does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do.
- Woodrow Wilson
Peoples and governments have never learned
anything from history, or acted on principles deducible from
it.
- G. W. F. Hegel
History is simply a piece of paper covered
with print; the main thing is still to make history, not to write
it.
- Otto Von Bismarck
Any fool can make history, but it takes a
genius to write it.
- Oscar Wilde
