50 Quotes About History – Most Famous History Quotes
Looking for the best quotes about history? These 50 epic quotes about history will show you the true value of history.
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These history quotes will also make you realise the true value of history.
Let me share with you the most inspiring, loveliest history quotes.
So without further ado, here are the 50 history quotes – embrace these and enjoy!
QUOTES ABOUT HISTORY
1 – History is the study of all the world’s crime. Voltaire
2 – If you want to understand today you have to search yesterday. Pearl S. Buck
3 – History is a set of lies agreed upon. Napoleon Bonaparte
4 – We are not makers of history. We are made by history. Martin Luther King, Jr.
5 – Perhaps nobody has changed the course of history as much as historians. Franklin P. Jones
6 -Study the past and you would define the future. Confucius
7- If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. Michael Crichton
8 – What is history? An echo of the past in the future, a reflex from the future on the past. Victor Hugo
9 – Ideas shape the course of history. John Maynard Keynes
10 – Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
QUOTES ABOUT HISTORY
11 – History is who we are and why we are the way we are. David McCullough
12 – The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. Mark Twain
13 – We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do. Margaret MacMillan
14 – History is the story of events, with praise or blame. Cotton Mather
15 – History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future. Robert Penn Warren
16 – History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future. Robert Penn Warren
17- History is not the past but a map of the past, drawn from a particular point of view, to be useful to the modern traveler. Henry Glassie
18 – Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results. Machiavelli
19 – There is a history in all men’s lives. William Shakespeare
20 – History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. Johan Huizinga
QUOTES ABOUT HISTORY
21 – In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind. Edmund Burke
22 – History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books. Books, which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, “what is history, but a fable agreed upon? Dan Brown
23 – One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary… The enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization. John Jay Chapman
24 – What is history?, our answer, consciously or unconsciously, reflects our own position in time, and forms part of our answer to the broader question, what view we take of the society in which we live. Edward Hallett Carr
25 – How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past? John Steinbeck
26 – History gets thicker as it approaches recent times. A.J.P. Taylor
27- A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. Robert Heinlein
28 – History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought. Etienne Gilson
29 – Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.
Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged. Abraham Lincoln
30 – History gives answers only to those who know how to ask questions. Hajo Holborn
QUOTES ABOUT HISTORY
31 – The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. George Orwell
32 – Mankind is so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature. David Hume
33 – History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. David C. McCullough
34 – One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. Golda Meir
35 – An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. Ambrose Bierce
36 – We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. George Bernard Shaw
37- History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it. Henry Steele Commager
38 – If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. Rudyard Kipling
39 – History is information. Memory is part of our identity. David Miliband
40 – Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. Arthur Henderson
QUOTES ABOUT HISTORY
41 – History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King Jr.
42 – People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. G.K. Chesterton
43 – He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed. Lech Walesa
44 – We spend a great deal of time studying history, which, let’s face it, is mostly the history of stupidity. Stephen Hawking
45 – Historians are themselves the products of history. Paul Conkin and Roland Stromberg
46 – Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always. Mahatma Gandhi
47- Study the historian before you begin to study the facts. Edward Hallett Carr
48 – The history of the past interests us only insofar as it illuminates the history of the present. Ernest Dimnet
49 – There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. Harry S. Truman
50 – If you don’t know history, it’s as if you were born yesterday. If you were born yesterday then any leader can tell you anything. Howard Zinn
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