Quotes about history

The only way to predict the future is to understand the past. – John Naisbitt

History is not just a record of the past, but a guide for the future. – Barack Obama

History teaches us that nothing is certain except change. – Heraclitus

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. – George Santayana

The history of the world is the story of men and women who dared to dream and shape their own destiny. – Unknown

History is written by the victors, but its lessons are for all. – Winston Churchill

The past is never dead. It’s not even past. – William Faulkner

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 a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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 the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte

History is the study of the mistakes we are doomed to repeat. – Unknown

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. – Stephen E. Ambrose

Quotes about history part 2

History is who we are and why we are the way we are. – David McCullough

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. – Winston Churchill

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. – Maya Angelou

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

The march of the human mind has never been linear. It has always been a zigzag course amidst great storms and calm seas. – Vasco da Gama

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. – Lord Acton

The greatest lessons in history come not from conquerors, but from peacemakers. – John F. Kennedy

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. – Harold Taylor

History is like a mirror, reflecting ourselves through the ages. – Unknown

History is a ribbon, always unfurling; history is a journey. And as we continue our journey, we think of those who traveled before us. – Barack Obama

History is the story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. – Unknown

The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future. – Theodore Roosevelt

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. – Voltaire

The price of greatness is responsibility. – Winston Churchill

The past and present are a continuous process, linked by the same threads. – Unknown

Great leaders inspire others to do more, dream more, and become more. – Ralph Nader

History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. – Mark Twain

History is the autobiography of a madman. – Alexander Herzen

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false. – Paul Johnson

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. – John F. Kennedy

History is not just the past. It shapes the present and future. – Unknown

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the growth of humanity, the realization of freedom, the realization of human equality, the joy of progress, the happiness of acquisition, the glory of conquest. – Thomas Huxley

The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker

History is the compass with which we can navigate the future. – Unknown

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. – Richard Nixon

The grand sweep of history is made up of individual stories. – Unknown

Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it. – George Santayana

History is not just a collection of facts, but a series of stories waiting to be told. – Unknown

The history of the world is the result of the collective decisions and actions of individuals. – Unknown

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. – George Orwell

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there. – George Santayana

History is not a burden of the past, but a light to the future. – John F. Kennedy

The history of the world is the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle

The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present, the idea that everything is easy, everything is possible, because we are here and in charge. – David McCullough

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. – Edmund Burke

History is not just a lesson in the past, but a guide for the future. – Unknown