History Quotes

Those who lived through the great moments reflect on what happened and why it still matters.

18227 quotes

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"A man's legacy is determined by what he leaves behind."
Honoré de Balzac
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"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
Victor Hugo
"The deeper you dive into history, the more you understand the present."
Gustave Flaubert
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"History teaches us the lessons we are too proud to learn from wisdom."
Alexandre Dumas
"The whole human race is bathed in blood and I have lost the power of shedding tears."
Mary Shelley
"Some aspects of human endeavor have not changed in centuries."
Mary Shelley
"History repeats itself because humanity refuses to learn from it."
Émile Zola
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"The death of a man is a tragedy, but the death of a social order is a catastrophe."
Charles Dickens
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"History repeats itself because we refuse to learn from it."
Honoré de Balzac
"History is the teacher of fools and wise men alike."
William Wordsworth
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"History is the science of things that are no more."
Victor Hugo
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"History is a teacher if we are willing to learn."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"History repeats itself to those who don't learn from it."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The mind that forgets the past is condemned to repeat it."
Mary Shelley
"History is written by those who survive it."
Mary Shelley
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"History repeats itself because humanity refuses to learn its lessons."
Alexandre Dumas
"History never repeats itself. Man always does."
Gustave Flaubert
"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."
Gustave Flaubert
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"History is the sum of human mistakes and the occasional triumph of virtue."
Honoré de Balzac
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"History teaches us that those who ignore its lessons are doomed to repeat them."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"History is the witness of time, the light of truth."
Mary Shelley
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"Progress is the mode of man."
Victor Hugo
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"There is no present or future, only the past happening over and over again, now."
Victor Hugo
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"It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped."
Victor Hugo
"History teaches those who listen."
William Wordsworth
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"History repeats itself because we fail to learn from it."
Lord Byron
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"History is the teacher of those willing to listen."
Lord Byron
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"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"The history of a man's progress is the history of his errors corrected."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Even the greatest genius is hampered by the times."
John Keats