Quotes About History

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War, ' as it was called until 1939.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.

Our countries have been friends dating to the very existence of the United States. France is the only power that has never been at war with the United States.

Alexander Graham Bell's wife, who said to Alex on their wedding night, Your three minutes are up. Never got a dinner!

Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.

Hunchbacks danced at my wedding for luck. It's a thing you don't see nowadays.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Acquire wisdom from the story of those who have already passed.

A man without any history is like a tree without roots

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great.

Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the mental history of mankind.

The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.