History Quotes
Those who lived through the great moments reflect on what happened and why it still matters.
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"What's past is prologue"William Shakespeare
"The great object is to mark the progress of the human mind through the ages."Lord Byron
"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The history of men is reflected in the history of the external world."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"To understand history is to understand the patterns of human nature."John Milton
"The study of the past illuminates the path to the future."John Milton
"What's past is prologue"William Shakespeare
"England with all thy faults, I love thee still."Lord Byron
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."Lord Byron
"Progress is the motion of those who understand the direction of history."Dante Alighieri
"History is the teacher of those wise enough to listen."Dante Alighieri
"To understand the present, we must reverently study the past; to build the future, we must learn from both."William Wordsworth
"History is the teacher of all wisdom."Geoffrey Chaucer
"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"What's past is prologue."William Shakespeare
"The great deeds of renowned men are never lost to memory."Virgil
"The Trojan War began with a kiss."Homer
"A man who does not know where he has been, cannot know where he is going."Dante Alighieri
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."Dante Alighieri
"History teaches those wise enough to listen."Dante Alighieri
"History teaches us that human nature remains constant through the ages."Geoffrey Chaucer
"Those ignorant of history are condemned to repeat its tragedies."Geoffrey Chaucer
"The powerful always write the history of the vanquished."Ovid
"To understand the present, we must study the past."Ovid
"What's past is prologue."William Shakespeare
"He seems to be of Indian and Eastern origin, dark and full of mystery."John Milton
"Historical patterns repeat until humanity learns its lessons."John Milton
"Legacy is not what you accumulate, but what you leave behind."Virgil