History Quotes

"The past haunts us because we refuse to understand what it teaches."

"A nation that forgets its past is condemned to repeat it."

"The past is not dead; it lives in our choices and our regrets."

"The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones"

"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time."

"Too often we honor our heroes and leaders while they are alive only to recoil from them when they are dead."

"The past always returns to confront the present."

"I have never been interested in the study of the living, but only in that of the past."

"History is the great teacher of us all."

"History repeats itself because we fail to learn from it."

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"We have better discourse with the ancients than with our contemporaries."

"In the Middle Ages, manuscripts were said to be corrupted in the hands of the copyist, but they were improved by accident."

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

"History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken."

"History teaches us that passion and reason are not enemies but partners."

"The past does not simply vanish; it accumulates, piles up around us."

"History repeats itself not because humans are forgetful, but because we remain unchanged."

"Each generation thought it could change human nature, and in this each generation is deceived."

"History teaches us nothing, for men never learn from the mistakes of their ancestors."

"History is written by the victors, but the truth belongs to those who understand both sides."

"Humanity is not a species, but a history."

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

"History is an account mostly false of events unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves."

"History is a tableau of crimes and misfortunes."

"Every event has causes which preceded it"

"History is not the soil of happiness"

"The past has a way of defining us."

"The past is always with us, shaping who we become."

"History repeats itself because we fail to learn from it."