Quotes About History

All new news is old news happening to new people

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

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers.

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

We possess nothing certainly except the past

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist

If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.

Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

The uneasy ghost of Marx must suffer the torments of the damned at the truth glaring from the pages of history that one does not abolish property by transferring it to the state.