History Quotes

"I believe that history teaches us valuable lessons for the future."

"History is the best teacher if we're willing to learn from it."

"The history of theatre is the history of human consciousness and expression."

"There's nothing new under the sun."

"I think history teaches us that humanity is capable of both great evil and great good."

"Audrey Hepburn was born in Belgium and grew up in the Netherlands during World War II, which shaped her compassionate worldview."

"I'm interested in history, and if you're interested in history, you're interested in people."

"History has a sense of humor; if you wait long enough, what was scandalous becomes quaint."

"The theater survives because it speaks to something timeless in us."

"The stage is a mirror reflecting society back to itself."

"We are all products of our past, but we are not prisoners of it."

"Culture is the memory of a people."

"History teaches us valuable lessons for the future."

"The history of theatre teaches us that great art often emerges from periods of social upheaval."

"Elia Kazan did not want me for that part—he wanted Marlon Brando."

"The past is a teacher, the present is a laboratory, and the future is a blank canvas."

"History is the judge of our actions, not our intentions."

"History shows us patterns; wisdom is learning from them."

"The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know."

"Men make history, and not the other way around."

"History teaches us that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."

"I want to remind you that if there is a single thing we can learn from history, it is that policies that help some at the expense of others lead to conflict."

"Just as the Founding Fathers created the Electoral College to prevent the masses from directly selecting the president, so too did they create the Senate to prevent the masses from directly selecting senators."

"History teaches us that change is inevitable and necessary."

"I think there's something cool about the fact that salt was used as currency."

"Culture is the memory of a people; without it, we are but travelers without a map."

"History repeats itself because we do not listen the first time it speaks to us."

"A nation that forgets its past is condemned to lose its future."

"A man who does not learn from history is condemned to repeat it, but a man who learns may repeat it anyway."

"The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know."