Memorable History Quotes

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"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul."
Lord Acton
"The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it throws a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest."
Walter Bagehot
"History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness."
James Fenimore Cooper
"The history of liberty is a history of resistance."
Woodrow Wilson
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
John Adams
"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
Sigmund Freud
"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created."
William Morris
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"Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it."
Patrick McKenzie
"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech."
Benjamin Franklin
"History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity."
Haile Selassie
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
John F. Kennedy
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see."
Winston Churchill
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana
"The past is always tense, the future perfect."
Zadie Smith
"It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself."
Gertrude Stein
"In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind."
Edmund Burke
"The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experiences plainly set out for all to see."
Latin Proverb
"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."
Karl Marx
"History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinion."
Lord Acton
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know."
Harry S. Truman
"History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals."
Haile Selassie
"The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are."
Maya Angelou
"The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen."
Walter Bagehot
"History is a vast early warning system."
Norman Cousins
"History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes in an atmosphere of imaginary brightness."
James Fenimore Cooper
"History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals."
Malcolm X
"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."
Robert A. Heinlein
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future."
John F. Kennedy
"There is one thing a professor can be absolutely sure of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative."
Allan Bloom
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
Winston Churchill
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
Thomas Jefferson
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"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."
James Baldwin
"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles."
Karl Marx
"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."
Malala Yousafzai
"Those who tell the stories rule society."
Plato
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Nelson Mandela
"History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children."
Nelson Mandela
"History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity."
Robert Penn Warren
"The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter."
Hendrik Willem van Loon
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"History is written by the victors."
Winston Churchill
"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."
George Santayana
"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
Winston Churchill
"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
Unknown
"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
Winston Churchill
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
Maya Angelou
"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside."
John F. Kennedy
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."
Abba Eban
"The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
Thomas Carlyle
"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"History is the story of winners."
Harold Evans
"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"
Napoleon Bonaparte
"The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice."
Mark Twain
"Study the past if you would define the future."
Confucius
"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots."
Marcus Garvey
"History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided."
Konrad Adenauer
"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again."
Kurt Vonnegut
"History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The one thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."
G. K. Chesterton
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner
"What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history."
Will Rogers
"History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes."
Mark Twain
"In history, there are no accidents. If you don't understand that, you don't understand history."
A. F. M. Zaki
"The greatest lesson of history is that we do not learn from it."
David McCullough
"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child."
Cicero
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified. Every book rewritten, every picture painted, every statue and street building has been renamed."
George Orwell
"History is not a science but an interpretation."
Julian Barnes
"The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom."
Jean Bodin
"History is the scaffold of the future."
Stephen Gardiner
"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."
Mark Twain
"History is more or less bunk."
Henry Ford
"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."
Rudyard Kipling
"History is a series of triumphs and tragedies that mankind has faced."
L. C. McKenzie
"A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of society."
B. R. Ambedkar
"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time."
Varro
"The more you know about your past, the better prepared you are for your future."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The past is prologue."
William Shakespeare
"The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future."
Theodore Roosevelt
"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only past and future."
John F. Kennedy
"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."
Marcus Garvey
"History is bunk."
Henry Ford
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."
Karl Marx
"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"History is not a burden on the memory, but an illumination of the soul."
Lord Acton
"Study the past if you would divine the future."
Confucius
"History is a symphony of echoes."
Maya Angelou
"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised."
Kurt Vonnegut
"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
James Joyce
"What is history? It is nothing more than a recital of events."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"History is a guide pronounced by the wise, a possession for good or evil, to mankind."
Edward Abbey
"History is a great teacher, but it's a hard one."
Unknown
"In history, the names of the great men are often the names of the great lies."
Albert Camus
"History is a clock that people use to tell their own time."
Immanuel Kant
"History is a long unbroken chain of violations of the rights of man."
Edmund Burke
"History is written in ink, not in pencil."
Unknown
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