6,230 Quotes About History

The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of social or political "physics" with reliable predictive powers. Why? Because there is no possibility of repeating the single, multi-millennium experiment that constant to the past. The sample size of human history is one.

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.

With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence toward one another.

Fizica cuantică ne spune că oricât de amănunțite ar fi observațiile noastre asupra prezentului, trecutul (neobservat), la fel ca viitorul, e nedefinit și există doar ca un spectru de posibilități. Conform fizicii cuantice, universul nu are doar un singur trecut sau o singură istorie.

Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.

Espionage is the world's second oldest profession.