Similar quotesIf you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw 
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire 
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon 
History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.
Henry Ford 
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill 