History Quotes
- “The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.” – Harry S. Truman
- “History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.” – John F. Kennedy
- “History is written by the victors.” – Winston Churchill
- “History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” – David McCullough
- “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” – Winston Churchill
- “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou
- “History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another’s pain in the heart our own.” – Julius Lester
- “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana
- “History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
- “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.” – Winston Churchill
- “History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” – Abba Eban
- “History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.” – Cicero
- “History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the intellect has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams, drunkenness of ideas, a kind of cold fever, a sort of mythomania.” – Victor Hugo
- “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” – William Faulkner
- “History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.” – Lord Acton
- “The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” – Thomas Carlyle
- “History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.” – Lawrence Durrell
- “History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.” – Konrad Adenauer
- “History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “History is the story of events, with praise or blame.” – Cotton Mather
