Quotes About History

The sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, and will still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. ... You can look him straight in the eye and say, "Son your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son of a Goddamned Bitch named Georgie Patton.

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death...

The South had always been identified with the Negro, and vice versa,

This latest menace of Black-No-More is the most formidable the white people of America have had to face since the founding of the Republic.

People talk of "class selfishness". Well, I know something of history, and I never heard of any tyrant, aristocrat, capitalist, slave-holder, buccaneer, middle-class shopkeeper - so absolutely and exclusively governed by selfishness as Trades Union "labour".

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

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

Wer sich an die Vergangenheit nicht erinnert, ist dazu verdammt sie zu wiederholen.

Chi non conosce la storia è condannato a ripeterla.

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The more we know of the history of the universe, the more we know about ourselves.