History Quotes

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

18227 quotes

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"History is a mirror showing us our own nature reflected."
Buster Keaton
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"History teaches us that change is inevitable."
Aaron Beck
"History teaches us not to repeat the same mistakes."
Laurel and Hardy
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"The thing I love about my country is that Americans start all over again."
W.C. Fields
"History shows that those who think differently change the world."
Albert Ellis
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"History teaches us that progress is possible but never guaranteed."
Nancy Cantor
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"History is our teacher if we're willing to listen."
Nancy Cantor
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"History will remember not what I said, but what I made people feel."
Buster Keaton
"History teaches us that human problems are often self-created through flawed thinking."
Albert Ellis
"History reveals that societies improve through rational reform, not irrational revolution."
Albert Ellis
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"History teaches us that patience always triumphs."
Walter Mischel
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"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
Robert McCrae
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"History is the teacher of the present."
Robert McCrae
"History shows that rigid thinking has caused more harm than flexible adaptation."
Albert Ellis
"History teaches that oppression is resisted by those with clear vision."
Albert Ellis
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"To understand a culture, you must understand the constructs that culture uses to make meaning."
George Kelly
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"History teaches us that change is constant and humans are adaptable."
Aaron Beck
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"History is the biography of human potential and human folly."
Aaron Beck
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"We honor our past not by repeating it, but by learning from it."
Nancy Cantor
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"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce."
Costa Paul
"History repeats because human thinking patterns repeat."
Albert Ellis
"History shows us the same patterns with different costumes."
Albert Ellis
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"History shows how personality shapes leaders and movements"
Hans Eysenck
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"History is written by personalities with conviction"
Hans Eysenck
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"History repeats itself when we fail to learn its lessons."
Raymond Cattell
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"History is the collective wisdom of humanity written in the record of our choices."
Raymond Cattell
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"History teaches us the constructs by which previous generations made sense of chaos."
George Kelly
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"History teaches that human nature remains constant while circumstances change."
Raymond Cattell
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"The five factors transcend culture, language, and time."
Robert McCrae
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"History is the story of personalities colliding and cooperating."
Robert McCrae