History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
False history gets made all day, any day,
the truth of the new is never on the news.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
~ Mark Twain
We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved
their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main
thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences
and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that ... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.
People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
~ Oscar Wilde
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles.
George Wilhelm Hegel
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
~ Winston Churchill
All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
It's not the monuments that teach us history. It's the ruins.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that,
when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
~ Winston Churchill
Patriotism ruins history.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
~ Herbert George Wells
A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
~ Mark Twain
One faces the future with one's past.
Pearl S. Buck
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
History records the successes of men with objectives and a sense of direction. Oblivion is
the position of small men overwhelmed by obstacles.
To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.
I came, I saw, I conquered.
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Sir Walter Scott
I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here,
and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
History would be an excellent thing, if only it were true.
~ Leo Tolstoy
When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us.
Arapaho ~ Native American Proverbs
Hope is the physician of each misery.
~ Irish Proverbs
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
~ Albert Einstein