The history of the world is the biography of great people. Thomas Carlyle
History is the witness of time, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Looking at history as if in a mirror, I try to change my own life for the better. Plutarch
A compelling story is rarely completely true. Samuel Johnson
God cannot change the past, but historians can. And it must be precisely because they sometimes provide this service that God tolerates their existence. Samuel Butler
It is a sign of a historian's malevolent character that, out of two or many versions of a story, he always prefers the one that portrays the historical figure in a darker light. Plutarch
From history we draw experience; on the basis of experience the most living part of our practical mind is formed. Johann Gottfried Herder
History should not exceed the limits of truth, and for honest actions one truth is enough. Gaius Pliny Caecilius (younger)
History teaches that wherever weak and ignorant people possessed something that strong and educated people wanted to have, the former always conceded it of their own free will. Mark Twain
The greatest misunderstanding is to go into morality when it comes to historical facts. Denis Diderot
The historian's talent is to create a true whole from parts that are only half true. Joseph-Ernest Renan
We are always ready to tell the same story twice - but not to hear it twice. William Gaslitt
The first law of history is to be afraid of any lie, and then - not to be afraid of any truth. Marcus Tullius Cicero
History is a treasury of our deeds, a witness to the past, an example and teaching for the present, a warning for the future. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Perhaps a more accurate description of what never happened is the inherent privilege and specialty of the historian. Oscar Wilde
The wheel of history is turned by fools and swindlers. They rule the world. They are the world. George Saville Halifax
History is a series of fictitious events that actually happened. Charles Louis Montesquieu
What is the history of mankind if not a true story of unfulfilled plans and unfulfilled hopes? Samuel Johnson
There are many pages in the history of any nation that would be magnificent if they were true. Denis Diderot
The history of peoples oppressed by despots is just a collection of anecdotes. Nicolas-Sebastian Chamfort
The ancient historians present us with delightful fiction in the form of facts; the modern novelist presents us with boring facts under the guise of fiction. Oscar Wilde
I don't talk about the importance of folk songs. This is a people's history, living, bright, full of colors and truth, revealing the entire life of the people. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
Many of us, especially schoolchildren and their parents, tirelessly wonder why we need to know history. What is the significance and relevance of studying events that happened many years ago? However, there are many varied reasons that indicate the need to study this subject, which is a combination of many other disciplines. Many arguments have already been made about the importance of history, but they still remain relevant today.
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A healthy social atmosphere in the country, a full-fledged society and peace is the goal that all people in general and each individual state in particular strive for. It is impossible to value everything with money and pay for everything. Therefore, the state rests not on businessmen, but on philanthropists, altruists and patriots. The whole world rests on them. History remembers them. Those who loved their country, who gave their lives for the happiness of others. These are fearless warriors, selfless doctors, talented scientists, and simply selfless patriots of their people.
Why is history needed? Because it popularly tells each next generation about what it owes to its ancestors. We will learn what ideals our great-grandfathers lived by, what feats they performed. We understand how their lives impacted our present. Fostering respect for the past with its reforms, struggles, victories and failures is the task of history.
Why study history?
Today is inseparable from yesterday. All people and nations live by history: we speak languages that have come down to us from the distant past, we live in societies with complex cultures inherited from ancient times, we use technologies developed by our ancestors... Thus, the study of the relationship between the past and the present is undeniable basis for a good understanding of modern human existence. This explains why we need history, why and how important it is in our lives.
Getting to know the human past is the path to self-knowledge. History helps us understand the origins of modern social and political problems. It is the most important source for studying the characteristic behavior of people in certain social conditions. History makes us realize that people in the past were not simply “good” or “bad,” but were motivated in complex and contradictory ways, just as they are today.
Each person's view of the world is shaped by individual experience, as well as the experience of the society in which he lives. If we do not know the contemporary and historical experiences of different cultures, then we cannot even hope to understand how people, societies or nations make decisions in the modern world.
The very essence
Historical knowledge is no more and no less than a carefully and critically constructed collective memory. It is memory that makes us human, and collective memory, that is, history, that makes us a society. Why know history? Yes, without individuality, he will immediately lose his identity and will not know how to act when meeting other people. The same thing happens with collective memory, although its loss will not be noticeable so immediately.
However, memory cannot be frozen in time. Collective memory is gradually acquiring a new meaning. Historians are constantly working to reconsider the past by asking new questions, searching for new ones, and analyzing ancient documents in order to gain new knowledge and experience to better understand the past and what is happening. History is constantly changing and expanding, as is our memory, helping us acquire new knowledge and skills to improve our lives….
Next to history, politics is nothing more than an anecdote.
"WITH. Dali"
Historical misconceptions are more durable than historical facts.
"Mason Lock Weems"
Each person is a world that is born with him and dies with him; Under every gravestone lies world history.
"G. Heine"
Russian history before Peter the Great is a continuous dirge, and after Peter the Great it is one criminal case.
"F. Tyutchev"
Don't you like this barbarity? Don’t be angry - history answers you: the richer you are, the happier you are. These are only conclusions from everything that preceded.
"IN. I. Lenin"
It seems difficult to write history.
"Guy S. Crisp"
The historian should not trust the sublime motives of any act if any base motive can be indicated.
"Edward Gibbon"
Historical truth consists of the silence of the dead.
"Etienne Rey"
The best thing history can give is the enthusiasm it generates.
"Johann Goethe"
After clearing our history of lies, not only the truth should remain; sometimes nothing remains at all.
"Stanislav Jerzy Lec"
If the inhabitants of the caves could laugh, the whole story would have turned out differently.
"Oscar Wilde"
"Charles Peguy"
A historian is a person who avoids minor factual errors while constructing a completely erroneous overall picture.
History repeats itself twice and is rewritten much more often.
"Anatoly Ras"
A country is the history of a country, it is a collection of all its stories. We are what our fathers made us; their victories gave us what we have.
"Bernard Cornwell"
I was halfway between poverty and sunshine. Poverty prevented me from believing that all is well in history and under the sun, the sun taught me that history is not everything.
"Albert Camus"
History is the science of what no longer exists and will never exist.
"Paul Valéry"
All historical laws have their own statute of limitations.
"Maria Ebner-Eschenbach"
Excellent minds are the true heroes of history.
"N. M. Karamzin"
History is practically just a journal of the crimes, stupidities and misfortunes of mankind.
“E. Gibbon"
History is a series of fictitious events that actually happened.
“Sh. Montesquieu"
If the flattery that the historian uses to succeed is disgusting to everyone, then everyone willingly listens to slander and slander.
World history is a world court.
"Friedrich Schlegel"
We are children of the West. We must learn from the West that it is older, more experienced and more successful. More successful because we buy everything from the West, and not the West from us!
History teaches using forbidden pedagogical techniques.
"Wieslaw Brudzinski"
There are many pages in the history of any nation that would be magnificent if they were true.
"D. Diderot"
The history of the world is the biography of great people.
"T. Carlyle"
History repeats itself twice - first as a tragedy, then as a farce.
"Karl Marx"
Anyone who knows history in detail will never want to become a historian.
"Stanislav Jerzy Lec"
No matter how good or bad my ancestors may be, they are mine! It is not in my power to change history, but it is in mine to accept it. Accept and try to understand.
Legend always triumphs over history.
"Sarah Bernhardt"
Every nation has a history that suits its imagination.
"Maxim Zvonarev"
World history is the sum of everything that could have been avoided.
"B. Russell"
Few things happen at the right time, and many things don’t happen at all. A conscientious historian can correct this.
History is forced to repeat itself again and again, because simply no one listens to it.
"Lawrence Peter"
There is nothing more pointless than judging or treating corpses: they are only ordered to be buried.
"Vasily Klyuchevsky"
It is impossible to write the history of distant eras because we do not have enough sources, and it is impossible to write the history of modern times because we have too many sources.
"Charles Peguy"
The history of all hitherto existing societies has been the history of class struggle.
"Karl Marx"
There is so much history within these walls. Something so special cannot be exchanged for money.
"Sara Gio"
The history of mankind is, basically, only the history of ideas.
"H.G. Wells"
The fact that people do not learn from the mistakes of history is the most important lesson of history.
History has the same relation to truth as theology has to religion - that is, one that is not worth talking about.
Robert Heinlein
History is a wind that pulls names, events and dates out of the past and drives them forward into the future, like a herd of empty tin cans.
Alexey Belmasov
History should not humiliate itself to the point of becoming an echo of modern squabbles.
Barant
As a schoolboy I knew all the dates in French history, but I never remembered what happened on that date.
Sasha Guitry
You truly feel like an ancient ruin when you read in a history textbook a story about events that you remember as fresh news.
If Beethoven had died in a plane crash, the history of music and aviation would have been completely different.
Tom Stoppard
History is a fiction that everyone agrees with.
Paraphrased Voltaire
History is a policy that can no longer be corrected. Politics is history that can still be corrected.
Sigmund Graff
History is first and foremost a muse.
Paul Valéry
History is silent about many stories.
Yuzef Bulatovich
The story develops in a tailspin.
Arkady Davidovich
There are many pages in the history of any nation that would be magnificent if they were true.
Denis Diderot
History repeats itself twice and is rewritten much more often.
Anatoly Ras
History will prove me right, especially if I write it myself.
Attributed to Winston Churchill
Every nation has a history that suits its imagination.
Maxim Zvonarev
WEEMS' LAW: Historical misconceptions are more durable than historical facts.
Mason Lock Weems
Historical truth consists of the silence of the dead.
Etienne Rey
It is impossible to write the history of distant eras because we do not have enough sources, and it is impossible to write the history of modern times because we have too many sources.
Charles Peguy
The historian should not trust the sublime motives of any act if any base motive can be indicated.
Edward Gibbon
If the flattery that the historian uses to succeed is disgusting to everyone, then everyone willingly listens to slander and slander.
Tacitus
A historian is a person who avoids minor factual errors while constructing a completely erroneous overall picture.
Few things happen at the right time, and many things don’t happen at all. A conscientious historian can correct this.
"The Tanniest Thing You Never Said" (2004)
History is exclusively the process of humanizing humanity.
L. Feuerbach
History is just a fable accepted by everyone.
B. Fontenelle
History is a place where it is easier to get stuck than to enter.
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History is a description, most often false, of actions, most often of little importance, committed by rulers, most often rogues, and soldiers, most often fools.
A. Beers
History is the best teacher who has the worst students.
I. Gandhi
I. McLeod
History is a collection of facts that should not have happened.
E. Lec
History is a collection of crimes, follies and misfortunes, among which there are some virtues, some happy times, just as human settlements are found here and there among the wild desert.
Voltaire
History is an aged modernity.
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History is something that happens, which, crossing time, destroying it, comes into contact with the eternal.
K. Jaspers
History is, for the most part, a tragedy of the people due to the stupidity of crowned persons, vain politicians, and also obvious crooks.
V. Zubkov
History is an appeal against modern errors, brought to the court of posterity.
S. Segur
History is a drama of freedom, where every point is surrounded by chaos.
M. Mamardashvili
History is the study of human error.
F. Guedalla
History is the method of evolution towards pure consciousness - not towards being conscious of something, but towards becoming consciousness itself.
S. Rajneesh
History is the science of freeing oneself from the boundaries of subject and object.
S. Rajneesh
History is the science of overcoming anarchy, the science of gaining the integrity of consciousness.
S. Rajneesh
History is sometimes something that never happened, described by someone who was never there.
E. Poncela
History is practically just a journal of the crimes, stupidities and misfortunes of mankind.
E. Gibbon
History is a series of fictitious events that actually happened.
C. Montesquieu
History is a collection of travel diaries of those who traveled through the same country and experienced the same hardships; their successes and failures are equally instructive.
G. Bolingbroke
History is a terrible dream from which you want to wake up.
D. Joyce
History is the judgment of descendants over their ancestors.
V. Zubkov
History is a chain of unsuccessful attempts by man to break out of the shackles of his own vicious nature.
T. Wilder
History of throws and jerks
Shakes out eras to the core,
And what started to live for centuries,
Suddenly overgrown with burdocks.
I. Guberman
History is a collection of crimes, follies and misfortunes, among which there are some virtues, some happy times, just as human settlements are found here and there in the middle of a wild desert.
Voltaire
The history of the world is the history of how the weak curse the strong, and the strong curse the weak.
S. Butler
V. Verkhovsky
History not only erects monuments, but also judges scoundrels.
V. Zubkov
History teaches nothing, but only punishes for ignorance of the lessons.
V. Klyuchevsky
The history of different peoples shows how deeply rooted in us is the tendency to attribute superhuman properties to those who have talents or simply occupy a prominent position. I have no doubt that the demigods and even the gods of ancient times are just those of our ancestors who were highly revered.
T. Wilder
History teaches only that it has never taught people anything.
G. Hegel
History teaches us what mistakes we have to make.
"Peter's Quotes"
History teaches that wars create more problems than they solve.
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History teaches that wherever weak and ignorant people possessed something that strong and educated people wanted to have, the former always conceded it of their own free will.
Mark Twain
History, in reality, is little more than a catalog of crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
E. Gibbon
F. Schiller
World history is a conspiracy of diplomats against common sense.
A. Schnitzler
S. Zheromski
World history consists of biographies of geniuses and great scoundrels.
E. Sevrus
Russian history before Peter the Great is one memorial service, and after Peter the Great it is one criminal case.
F. Tyutchev
Difficulty is the only excuse that history does not accept.
S. Greftan
What is history if not a lie that everyone agrees with?
Napoleon I
History contains more examples of dogs being loyal than friends.
A. Pop
In history we learn more facts and understand less the meaning of phenomena.
V. Klyuchevsky
What patriot, no matter what nation he belongs to, would not want to tear out a few pages from the history of our country?
P. Vyazemsky
Many bad students became famous historical figures. As you can see, history is easier to do than to teach it.
L. Feleki
If in the long course of history anything is clear, it is precisely that if the government takes upon itself to protect the work of the spirit, it protects it in the wrong places and rewards the wrong people.
G. Buckle
Responsibility to history frees us from responsibility to people. This is its convenience.
A. Camus
O. Huxley
V. Brudzinski
No one has changed human history as much as historians.
E. Mackenzie
The historian is a big-time gossip.
A. Beers
The historian is a failed prose writer.
G. Mencken
Historians falsify the past, ideologists falsify the future.
J. Pétan
God cannot change the past, but historians can.
S. Butler
Historical novels were born from truth raped by lies.
P. Buast
Great historical deeds, which blind us with their brilliance and are interpreted by politicians as the result of great plans, are most often the fruit of the play of whims and passions.
F. La Rochefoucauld
The regularity of historical phenomena is inversely proportional to their spirituality.
V. Klyuchevsky
Philosophy studies the erroneous views of people, and history studies their erroneous actions.
Philip Guedalla
History is the science of what no longer exists and will not exist.
Paul Valéry
History is the science of the future.
Konstantin Kushner
The future of archeology lies in ruins.
Erich von Däniken
Archaeologists are unearthing history that was buried by politicians.
Gabriel Laub
History is like meat pate: it’s better not to look closely at how it’s prepared.
Aldous Huxley
History is a union between the dead, the living and the unborn.
Edmund Burke
History, in fact, does not exist, only biographies exist.
Ralph Emerson
World history is a world court.
Friedrich Schlegel
There is nothing more pointless than judging or treating corpses: they are only ordered to be buried.
Vasily Klyuchevsky
World history is the sum of everything that could have been avoided.
Bertrand Russell
Everything is in the hands of the Lord, and only History has escaped His control.
Zbigniew Ezyna
All historical laws have their own statute of limitations.
Maria Ebner Eschenbach
The liveliest movement is often found in the blind alleys of history.
Arnold Toynbee
World history is the history of victories of people over people.
Stefan Żeromski
History almost always ascribes to individuals, as well as to governments, more combinations than they actually had.
Germaine de Stael
Let us be lenient towards great deeds: they are so rarely intentional.
Andre Berthe
The clock of history strikes at any time.
Jacek Weyroch
Even the clock of history has its watchmakers.
Boguslav Wojnar
History is the product of the secretions of the glands of a million historians.
John Steinbeck
God cannot change the past, but historians can. And it must be precisely because they sometimes provide this service that God tolerates their existence.
Samuel Butler
History is too serious a matter to be left to historians.
Ian MacLeod
The historian is a prophet turned back.
Friedrich Schlegel
The historian is often a journalist turned backwards.
Karl Kraus
The historian's talent is to create a true whole from parts that are only half true.
Ernest Renan
Those who create history often falsify it at the same time.
Wieslaw Brudzinski
It is necessary to find meaning in nonsense: this is the unpleasant duty of a historian; every philosopher can find meaning in an intelligent matter.
Vasily Klyuchevsky
The first thing a historian needs is a tough ass.
Ludvik Bazylev, historian
“What will history say?” - “History, sir, will lie, as always.”
George Bernard Shaw
History begins when nothing can be verified.
Vyacheslav Verkhovsky
History repeats itself.
Paraphrased Thucydides
History repeats itself twice - first as a tragedy, then as a farce.
Paraphrased Karl Marx
History does not repeat itself; and if it is repeated, then this is sociology.
History is forced to repeat itself because no one listens to it.
Lawrence Peter
History does not repeat itself - historians simply repeat each other.
Clement F. Rogers
History teaches using forbidden pedagogical techniques.
Wieslaw Brudzinski
The lesson of history is that people learn nothing from the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley, following Hegel
The Iliad, Plato, the Battle of Marathon, Moses, the Venus of Medicea, the Cathedral of Strasbourg, the French Revolution, Hegel, steamships, etc. - all these are individual successful thoughts in the creative dream of God. But the hour will come, and God will wake up, rub his sleepy eyes, smile - and our world will melt away without a trace, and perhaps it never existed at all.
Heinrich Heine
: History is not a teacher, but an overseer, magistra vitae: it teaches nothing, but only punishes for ignorance of the lessons.