马克思曾经说过历史本身就是自然史的一个现实的部分，是自然生成为人这一过程的一个现实部分，每一个年代都有一些名人来用自己的经历阐明对历史的认知，这里我们汇集了部分历史名人对历史的精辟见解。

1.History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.-Donald Creighton

2.Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.-Iris Chang

3.Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

4.Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

5.The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

6.When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day-but by the minute.

7.Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

8.A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A free society fertilizes the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.-Henry Steele Commager

9.The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

10.Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.-David Herbert Donald

11.Every day may not be good, But there's something good in every day.-Alice Morse Earle

12.The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.

13.All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.-David Christian

14.History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.-Bruce Catton

15.A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.-Bruce Catton

16.A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.- James MacGregor Burns

17.Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.

18.Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.-Alan Bullock

19.Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.-James Henry Breasted

20.All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.-Fernand Braudel

21.A law is but a deduction from experience and experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with law.- Immanuel Velikovsky

22.If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.- Carter G Woodson

23.Life is extremely valuable, and you don't always get a second chance.-Dan Curtis

24.Some things you'll never know, and some things you'll wish you never knew. -Erie williams

25.If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.-George Bancroft