History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

What we learn from history is that no one learns from history.

"The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question How can we eat? the second by the question Why do we eat? and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?"

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

So many people today — and even professional scientists — seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is — in my opinion — the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth. Letter to Robert A. Thorton, Physics Professor at University of Puerto Rico (7 December 1944).

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the Dead.

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.