History Quotes

"The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."

"To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to remain always a child."

"To understand history is to prepare oneself for the future."

"Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives."

"That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon or reading the history of the Empire."

"History repeats itself because mankind fails to heed its lessons."

"The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to refinement."

"To understand history is to understand the present."

"History teaches us from the mistakes of the past."

"History repeats itself to those who do not listen."

"Tis an old observation that the best doctors leave the kingdom."

"Every stone in Jerusalem tells of learning and piety."

"History repeats itself to those who do not learn from it."

"History is written by the victorious."

"History teaches the timeless lessons."

"History repeats itself because we do not learn from it."

"History is the teacher of the future."

"History is written by those with the leisure to record it, and thus always remains partial."

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

"History repeats because we fail to truly comprehend its lessons."

"The past haunts us more than any specter."

"The history of humanity is the history of the struggle for freedom."

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"History is written by the victors, but truth lives in the margins."

"History repeats itself to those who refuse to learn its lessons."

"History whispers warnings to those who listen."

"A great man leaves his mark not only on his own time but on all ages to come."

"How do the dead live with us, if not through the memory of the living?"

"History teaches us that liberty requires eternal vigilance and sacrifice."

"Mankind is a species incapable of learning from its mistakes."