Memorable Old Quotes In History

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"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots."
Marcus Garvey
"The first duty of a historian is to be on guard against his own wishes."
Lucien Febvre
"The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind."
Livy
"If we do not learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it."
Edmund Burke
"History teaches everything including the future."
Alphonse de Lamartine
"What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history."
Max Lerner
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner
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"It is the study of history that strengthens us against the future."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"History does not repeat itself; it rhymes."
Mark Twain
"History is a boundless field of stories, and every story must come to an end."
Robert Harris
"To know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain always a child."
Cicero
"We ought to be too big to take offense and too noble to give it."
Abraham Lincoln
"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold."
Walt Whitman
"History is not a mere chronicle of events but an account of the human spirit."
Henry Steele Commager
"We can evict the spirit of the past only by wrestling with it."
M. E. M. Morin
"The historian's task is to be at once an artist and a scientist."
Edward A. Freeman
"There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know."
Harry S. Truman
"History is the garden of memory, in which the past is cultivated."
Thomas Carlyle
"The essence of history is the remembrance of the past deeds of men and women."
Thucydides
"A nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired in value."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Time and tide wait for no man."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"No man is an island, entire of itself."
John Donne
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
Jimi Hendrix
"A picture is worth a thousand words."
Fred R. Barnard
"It is not what we have, but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance."
Epicurus
"Fortune favors the bold."
Virgil
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
George Orwell
"To be, or not to be, that is the question."
William Shakespeare
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Patrick Henry
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
Mahatma Gandhi
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Neil Armstrong
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
Lao Tzu
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Steve Jobs
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"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is not the length of life, but depth of life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
John Lennon
"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
Albert Einstein
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar Wilde
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
Buddha
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
L.P. Hartley
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul."
Lord Acton
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
Winston S. Churchill
"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child."
Cicero
"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."
George Santayana
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
Peter Drucker
"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'"
Lao Tzu
"History is a vast early warning system."
Norman Cousins
"You can never understand one language until you understand at least two."
G.K. Chesterton
"Every age has its own kind of madness that, in one way or another, threatens the health of a nation."
Erik Erikson
"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"He who does not remember history is bound to live through it again."
George Santayana
"A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of society."
Walter Lippmann
"In history, lies are accepted as truth; that is why history is fraught with injustice."
Nikita Khrushchev
"History never looks like history when you are living through it."
John W. Gardner
"The great adventures of mankind are the great stories of history, and they often teach us valuable lessons."
James Michener
"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time."
Varro
"The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know."
Harry S. Truman
"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia."
David Herbert Donald
"History teaches everything, even the future."
Alphonse de Lamartine
"We make history, not only by our actions, but by our non-actions."
William James
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"To be or not to be, that is the question."
William Shakespeare
"I think, therefore I am."
René Descartes
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
Benjamin Franklin
"Knowledge is power."
Francis Bacon
"To err is human, to forgive divine."
Alexander Pope
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
Lao Tzu
"A penny saved is a penny earned."
Benjamin Franklin
"Well done is better than well said."
Benjamin Franklin
"History is written by the victors."
Winston Churchill
"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."
Claude Debussy
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
"It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is how we use what we have."
Woodrow Wilson
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Lord Acton
"The first duty of society is justice."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"The pen is mightier than the sword."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Nelson Mandela
"Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is a nightmare."
Japanese Proverb
"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice."
Confucius
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
Plato
"He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened."
Lao Tzu
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
Winston Churchill
"What we think, we become."
Buddha
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