History Quotes

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

18227 quotes

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"History is philosophy teaching by example."
Mares, Edwin
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"History is the teacher of those who listen to its lessons."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"The past is not fixed; it changes as we understand it."
Priest, Graham
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"History repeats because we refuse to understand it."
Priest, Graham
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"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
Nolan, Daniel
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"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Classical logic has shaped Western thought for millennia."
Beall, Jc
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"A world without logical reasoning would be a world without progress."
Beall, Jc
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"Formal reasoning is humanity's greatest intellectual achievement."
Beall, Jc
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"History repeats because we fail to listen to its lessons."
Balaguer, Mark
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"Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it."
Balaguer, Mark
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"History teaches us lessons we are always eager to forget."
Mares, Edwin
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"History is the echo of yesterday colliding with tomorrow."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"History is philosophy teaching by examples."
Rosen, Gideon
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"History is the mirror in which we see ourselves."
Rosen, Gideon
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"We inherit history, but we choose whether to repeat or transcend it."
Nolan, Daniel
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"History is not the past; it is the present trying to teach the future."
Nolan, Daniel
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"The history of logic shows us the history of thought's self-understanding."
Beall, Jc
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"The history of philosophy is partly the history of questioning logical laws."
Beall, Jc
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"History repeats not because we ignore it, but because we refuse to understand it."
Mares, Edwin
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"History is the echo of choices made by those before us."
Mares, Edwin
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"We inherit our arguments as much as our genes."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
Correia, Fabrice
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"What we call progress is often merely a shift in perspective."
Priest, Graham
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"The past is a foreign country; we are always tourists there."
Priest, Graham
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"We inherit more from our ancestors than genes—we inherit their unfinished questions."
Rosen, Gideon
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"History is not what happened; it is what we remember of what happened."
Rosen, Gideon
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"The past is a foreign country; we are its interpreters."
Rosen, Gideon