History Quotes

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

18227 quotes

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"Those who cannot learn from history are condemned to repeat it."
Cosimo Medici
"The history of commerce is written by those who accumulate the most."
Charles Yerkes
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"To understand the present, one must first comprehend the lessons of history."
Giovanni Medici
"In history, we find the lessons we refuse to learn."
Lorenzo de Medici
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"History is not merely what happened but what we choose to remember and why."
James Hill
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"History teaches those willing to listen."
Cosimo Medici
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"History is the teacher of nations."
Cosimo Medici
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"History repeats itself to those who do not learn from it."
Thomas Fortune Ryan
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"History is philosophy taught by example."
Thomas Fortune Ryan
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"History teaches that those who accumulate without purpose eventually lose everything without understanding why."
Jacob Fugger
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"History teaches us that empires built on exploitation inevitably crumble."
William Rockefeller
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"History is the witness to human nature; study it well."
William Rockefeller
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"To understand history is to understand that the future has already been written by those who act today."
Edward Harriman
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"He who controls the past controls the future."
Cosimo Medici
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"History is the teacher of those willing to listen."
James Hill
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"Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it with greater consequences."
James Hill
"The study of history teaches us that human nature changes little, though circumstances transform everything."
Lorenzo de Medici
"Memory is the guardian of identity; forget your history and you forget yourself."
Lorenzo de Medici
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"Those who understand the past are better equipped to shape the future."
Thomas Fortune Ryan
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"To understand history is to predict the future of commerce."
Jacob Fugger
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"Those who remember the past will not repeat it; those who ignore it will be consumed by it."
Jacob Fugger
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"The history of progress is the history of those who dared to be different."
Edward Harriman
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"Those who understand the past are better equipped to shape the future."
William Rockefeller
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"A society that forgets its history is a society doomed to repeat it."
William Rockefeller
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"Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it."
August Belmont Jr.
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"History teaches us that human nature is both noble and flawed."
August Belmont Jr.
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"History repeats itself not because we learn nothing, but because we forget everything."
James Hill
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"History is the teacher that demands we pay attention."
James Hill
"History teaches us that empires fall not from external pressure, but from internal complacency."
Charles Yerkes
"Those who cannot learn from history are condemned to repeat it with less profitable outcomes."
Charles Yerkes