History Quotes

"That Scarlet Letter was my Puritan heritage."

"The past is ever present with us."

"History repeats itself because nobody was paying attention the first time."

"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."

"The past is not calmly shaping the future like the sculptor."

"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

"History repeats itself."

"Learn from history."

"One might enumerate the items of high civilization."

"The use of the past is to teach us lessons for the future."

"The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use."

"Civilization is immensely complex."

"History teaches us the consequences of our choices."

"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."

"History teaches us that human nature remains constant across ages."

"The past is replete with the examples of reformers."

"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."

"History repeats itself because we never truly learn from it."

"The past haunts us because we refuse to let it die."

"History repeats itself because human nature refuses to learn."

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."

"The less a man knows about his past, the more invisible his future."

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning."

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

"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities."

"History repeats itself because people refuse to learn from it."

"History is written by survivors, not by truth."

"History teaches us about ourselves."

"History provides guidance for the future."

"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."