Harry Houdini

We cannot escape history. - Abraham Lincoln

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

History is a set of lies agreed upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. - Virginia Woolf

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse. - John F Kennedy

We are not makers of history. We are made by history. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move. - Arnold J. Toynbee

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot. - Mark Twain

A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. - Martin H. Fischer

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. - Edmund Burke

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

History never looks like history when you are living through it. - John W. Gardner

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. - Konrad Adenauer

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. - Henry James

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

Women with pasts interest men. They hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. - Mark Twain

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. - Watchman Nee

There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much. - Noam Chomsky

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

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

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history. - Stephen Covey

I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love. - Waris Ahluwalia

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. - Oprah Winfrey

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. - Mahatma Gandhi

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. - Martha Stewart

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. - Billy Crystal

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

The shoulders I stand on are broad and strong, full of history and courage and love. How about you? Whose shoulders are you standing on? - Molly Johnson

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. - Renata Adler

I know of no other man in our time, or indeed in recent history, who so convincingly demonstrated the power of the spirit over material things. - Stafford Cripps

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. - Stephen Hawking

Things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it... is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now? - Paul Harvey