History Quotes

"The truth is that we hardly know anything about our ancestors."

"We are the sum of all that has gone before us, be it noble or execrable."

"The frontier has never been the place of the strong man alone."

"Every civilization has its creative geniuses and its destroyers."

"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done."

"The past is a guide to understanding the present."

"History is not what happened; history is what we remember of what happened."

"The seeds of our future are planted in the soil of our past."

"History repeats itself, not because man cannot learn, but because he will not."

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

"One's past is made up of the accumulation of little events."

"History is the record of human struggle and triumph."

"History repeats itself not because we fail to learn from it, but because human nature remains constant."

"History is written by those who survive to tell it."

"History repeats because we fail to learn its lessons."

"We are the products of all that has gone before us."

"One might say that the great pioneer period in any activity is past."

"There's a lustiness to life in the old days that is gone forever."

"The past is still of interest to the human race."

"History repeats itself because human nature remains fundamentally unchanged."

"The American people have a better opinion of themselves than they deserve."

"The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet."

"History teaches us wisdom for the future."

"History is the teacher of nations."

"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition."

"History teaches us what we must never repeat."

"History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat."

"History is not what happened, but what is remembered and recorded."

"Progress is an illusion created by those who benefit from change."

"The past is a prison from which we can never fully escape."