Quotes About History

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

History is just new people making old mistakes.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

For the first time in history, we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real-time... Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-Tung.