History Quotes

Those who lived through the great moments reflect on what happened and why it still matters.

18227 quotes

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"The historian records events, but the poet reveals their eternal meaning."
Pindar
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"All that is was once together in infinite unity."
Anaxagoras
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"History repeats itself to those who do not listen the first time."
Aesop
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"History teaches us wisdom."
Anaximander
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"The past is the servant of the future."
Aristophanes
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"History does not repeat but it often rhymes."
Aristophanes
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"We are born into the middle of an eternal conversation about reality."
Anaximander
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"The arrangement of atoms in time produces what we call history and memory."
Leucippus
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"What we call progress is often merely the repetition of ancient mistakes."
Xenophanes
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"A nation that forgets its history is condemned to repeat all its mistakes with renewed stupidity."
Aristophanes
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"He who respects the past shall be respected by the future."
Euripides
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"The generations of men rise and fall like the tides, moved by forces unseen."
Anaximander
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"Every particle of air has traveled through countless ages and worlds."
Anaximenes
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"History teaches that those who ignore the past repeat its errors."
Anaximenes
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"History teaches us what we must unlearn"
Empedocles
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"Those who do not learn from history repeat it."
Euripides
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"History repeats itself because the cosmic cycles of love and strife repeat eternally."
Empedocles
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"A man should never despise what he has done in the past, for it has made him what he is."
Aristophanes
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"History repeats itself because we don't pay attention."
Frankie Boyle
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"Seeds contain within them the memory of all their ancestors."
Anaximander
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"In water lies the memory of all that has ever lived."
Anaximander
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"History repeats itself to those who refuse to learn from it."
Euripides
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"History is humanity's greatest teacher if we are willing to listen."
Euripides
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"A society that forgets its history is doomed to repeat its greatest mistakes."
Sophocles
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Frankie Boyle
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"A society that forgets its history is doomed to repeat it."
Aristophanes
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"The historian who forgets the cycle of rise and fall is doomed to misunderstand the present."
Empedocles
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"What the young call revolution is often merely the elder's wisdom forgotten and relearned."
Empedocles
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"History repeats itself to those who refuse to learn its lessons."
Democritus
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"History repeats itself - usually while we're not paying attention."
Peter Kay