Quotes About History

The future is the past in preparation.

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past."

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

The "good old times"-all times, when old, are good.

The past is never dead-it is not even past.

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.

The past is a funeral gone by.

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

What's past is prologue.

I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men.

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Respect the past in the full measure of its deserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present, nor seek in it the ideals of the future.

Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.