History Quotes

"History is the chronicle of humanity's struggle for freedom and dignity."

"The very concept of the past is a human invention."

"Memory is a museum of contradictions."

"The past whispers through the present toward the future."

"History is the voice of those who could not speak."

"The ancients knew what we have forgotten about time."

"I could write the history of the literature of this century in terms of the publishers who refused my manuscripts."

"The future is built on the past."

"Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches."

"As long as there are stones and bones, there will be history."

"The price which the society pays for the blessing of a single violent genius is fearful."

"I believe that history will judge us not by what we possessed, but by what we gave."

"The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope."

"History is not the study of the past but the guide to the future."

"A civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation."

"Before Abraham Lincoln was martyr, he was a man."

"One of the greatest monuments to the past is a language."

"It is necessary to go back, go back many years."

"Tradition is a matter of much wider significance."

"The ghosts of all the past still walk with us."

"History teaches us that patterns repeat."

"Every historical fact becomes mythological when it becomes exemplary."

"Every period in human history has been a period of decay."

"The past is not dead; it is not even past."

"To understand the present, one must understand history."

"History is the witness to the passage of time."

"History repeats itself to those who refuse to learn from it."

"The seed of revolution is planted in the hearts of those who have nothing to lose."

"Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches."

"Each period of time in history is very much like the others if you know what I mean."