History Quotes

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

18227 quotes

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"What is civilization but a vast repository of the dead."
Judge Holden
A
"History repeats itself to those who do not learn from it."
Albus Dumbledore
A
"Those who cannot remember their past are condemned to repeat it."
Albus Dumbledore
A
"History repeats itself to those who do not learn from it."
Albus Dumbledore
A
"The past can teach us much if we listen."
Albus Dumbledore
C
"The past haunts us all"
Catelyn Stark
C
"The ghosts of the past haunt the present."
Catelyn Stark
A
"The past is not dead, it lives in us."
Albus Dumbledore
J
"History is written by those brave enough to change it."
Jasnah Kholin
D
"What is past is prologue"
Davos Seaworth
D
"The knights once stood against darkness itself."
Dalinar Kholin
J
"History repeats because we fail to learn."
Jasnah Kholin
W
"History is written by those who survive, but truth belongs to no one."
Wit (Hoid)
T
"The past haunts the living"
Theon Greyjoy
J
"Those who remember the past are less likely to repeat its mistakes."
Jasnah Kholin
M
"The past never dies. It just waits."
Mr. Wednesday
D
"History teaches us that cycles repeat, but we need not repeat our mistakes."
Dalinar Kholin
T
"The past haunts those who ignore it"
Theon Greyjoy
T
"History is merely the story the victors tell."
The Narrator
S
"The past never dies; it just gets buried."
Shadow Moon
S
"The past is a foreign country."
Shadow Moon
T
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme, and usually off-key."
The Narrator
M
"America is not a young land; it is old and dirty and evil before it was America."
Mr. Wednesday
M
"America devours its gods and spits out their bones."
Mr. Wednesday
J
"History is written by those with the will to write it."
Jasnah Kholin
T
"The really good thing about history is that we know what happened."
The Narrator
J
"History repeats because we fail to learn from it."
Jasnah Kholin
M
"The world is older than you think."
Mr. Wednesday
A
"We're older than your country, your science, your certainties."
Anansi
M
"America eats its gods for breakfast."
Mr. Wednesday