History
Even God cannot change the past.
μόνου γὰρ αὐτοῦ καὶ θεὸς στερίσκεται,
ἀγένητα ποιεῖν ἅσσ᾽ ἂν ᾖ πεπραγμένα.
Agathon (448 BCE-400 BCE)
History is just one bloody thing after another.
Anonymous
History is the certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.
Julian Barnes (1946- )
History repeats itself because nobody listens.
Anonymous
If history is written by the victors, legend is at the service of the vanquished.
Steve Roud (1949- )
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, “Let there be light”; and there was still nothing, but everybody could see it.
Anonymous
Soviet History 101: Who knows tomorrow what happened yesterday?
Anonymous
We owe most of what we know to about one hundred men; we owe most of what we have suffered to another hundred or so.
Anonymous