Henry James on history

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Besides, I try to judge things for myself; to judge wrong, I think, is more honourable than not to judge at all.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

Adolf Hitler1889–1945

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Harry S. Truman1884–1972