History Quotes

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

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"The history of logic is the history of human attempts to think systematically."
Beall, Jc
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"The history of philosophy is the history of humans struggling to understand understanding itself."
Beall, Jc
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"To understand history is to hold a conversation with those who came before."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"History is the autobiography of humanity."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
Smith, Barry
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"History is the laboratory where human nature is tested."
Rosen, Gideon
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"History repeats itself because we refuse to truly learn from it."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Understanding history is necessary to understanding the present."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Understanding the present requires studying the past."
Chomsky, Noam
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"History is the study of human choices and their consequences."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"Words carry within them the weight of history and culture."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Language shapes culture as much as culture shapes language."
Montague, Richard
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"History is the mirror we avoid looking into."
Smith, Barry
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"History repeats itself to those who refuse to learn."
Smith, Barry
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"Historical ignorance is not accidental."
Chomsky, Noam
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"We must understand the past to change the future."
Chomsky, Noam
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"History is written by those in power."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Understanding history requires unlearning official versions."
Chomsky, Noam
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"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
Rosen, Gideon
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"History teaches us that most people are wrong about the future."
Rosen, Gideon
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"History is written by the victors, but understood by the wise."
Rosen, Gideon
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"History repeats itself because we fail to learn its lessons."
Rosen, Gideon
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"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
Perry, John
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"Language is the medium through which culture and knowledge are transmitted."
Montague, Richard
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"The history of philosophy is largely the history of clarifying language."
Montague, Richard
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"To understand a culture is to understand the language through which it constructs meaning."
Montague, Richard
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"Language embodies the collective wisdom and experience of a culture."
Montague, Richard
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"History repeats not because we are doomed, but because we refuse to learn."
Smith, Barry
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"History is a conversation with the dead about the living."
Smith, Barry
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"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
Kaplan, David