History Quotes

"What can you expect to find in the present except the past?"

"History is written by survivors, not by the disappeared."

"History teaches us that humanity is capable of both great evil and great good."

"The South's story is a complex one, full of contradictions and painful truths."

"History, like a bad riddle, teaches by example, not by precept."

"The past is the textbook of all ages."

"The past is always a reconstruction. It cannot be otherwise."

"We are all born into some era. None of us chooses our time."

"You cannot know the past completely, and you can never change it anyway."

"The American character is not easy to define."

"We are all trapped by our own history."

"History repeats itself because we fail to learn from our own stories."

"The more you know about how things have always been, the better you are equipped to deal with things as they are."

"The peculiar problem of the South is that it, like Israel of old, chose to call itself the chosen people."

"The South has produced great violence, great passion, and great suffering."

"The past is more present than we often realize."

"History teaches us who we are and who we might become."

"In the landscape the past is always present."

"To begin with, the Ewells had been the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations."

"We carry our history with us; it shapes everything we do."

"One cannot write about the past without understanding the present."

"One cannot live in the past; one can only learn from it."

"History repeats itself for those who don't learn from it."

"The past is like a dream. It shapes us, but we cannot return to it."

"The novelist is the true historian of consciousness."

"The past is never really past; it lives inside us."

"The past is not truly past; it lives in us always."

"History repeats itself because we refuse to learn."

"History teaches that those who don't learn from it are condemned to repeat it."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."