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 the jury that judges us all."
Camilo Castelo Branco
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"The ink of history flows from the blood of those who dared."
Ludovico Ariosto
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"History repeats because we refuse to listen the first time."
Ludovico Ariosto
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"The flowering of civilization is contingent upon adequate food supplies."
Petrarch
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"A nation that forgets its history is condemned to repeat its follies."
Ramalho Ortigão
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"Memory is the currency of meaning; those who forget their past become impoverished."
Ramalho Ortigão
"To understand history is to hold the key to the future."
Torquato Tasso
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"Men are always in the same conditions as they have been in the past."
Niccolò Machiavelli
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"A knowledge of the past is essential if we are to understand the present."
Niccolò Machiavelli
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"In the course of a man's life, the same events do not twice occur; but the same kinds of events occur."
Niccolò Machiavelli
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"Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"History teaches those willing to listen that pride precedes ruin."
Torquato Tasso
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"The past instructs us only if we are willing to listen to its lessons."
Ramalho Ortigão
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"A história nos mostra o caminho para o futuro."
Almeida Garrett
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"A história se repete porque não a escutamos bem."
Almeida Garrett
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"The past is a teacher that instructs us through experience, but we must not become its prisoner."
Alexandre Herculano
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"Every generation inherits both the triumphs and failures of those before it."
Alexandre Herculano
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"History repeats itself because humanity never learns."
Eça de Queirós
E
"The past haunts the present with inescapable inevitability."
Eça de Queirós
E
"History written by victors conceals as much as it reveals."
Eça de Queirós
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"History repeats itself until we finally learn its lesson."
Saramago
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"History is littered with the graves of certainty."
Saramago
L
"History teaches us the consequences of our actions."
Luís de Camões
L
"History echoes in our present choices."
Luís de Camões
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"In the history of nations, we read the consequences of forgetting human dignity."
Camilo Castelo Branco
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"History is philosophy teaching by example, yet we remain stubbornly deaf."
Camilo Castelo Branco
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"A história nos repete quando não a compreendemos."
Ramalho Ortigão
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"History repeats itself because we refuse to learn from it."
Saramago
S
"The past is always present, whether we acknowledge it or not."
Saramago
L
"History repeats because humanity refuses to listen to its lessons."
Luís de Camões